{"id":532790,"date":"2026-01-13T00:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/532790\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:06:15","slug":"sixers-choke-away-leads-in-regulation-ot-in-ugly-loss-vs-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/532790\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers choke away leads in regulation, OT in ugly loss vs. Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, the good news is this won\u2019t be the loss this city is most mad about today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Sixers blew a four-point lead with 19 seconds left in regulation, falling 116-115 to the Toronto Raptors in overtime Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tyrese Maxey shook off a bad first half for the second straight game, leading all scorers with 38 including a stepback three that should have been the dagger with 19 seconds remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">VJ Edgecombe had his quietest night in some time even with his tying three in OT, having 17 points on 6-of-19 shooting with four assists. Kelly Oubre Jr had his best game since returning from injury with 13 points and seven stocks but a crucial foul late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Scottie Barnes led the Raptors with 31 including the game-winning free throw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the front end of a back-to-back Joel Embiid was out with left knee injury management and a groin strain, and Paul George was a very late scratch while Toronto was without Brandon Ingram, RJ Barrett and Jakob Poeltl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are some thoughts at the buzzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, the good news is this won\u2019t be the loss this city is most mad about today. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,42915],"class_list":{"0":"post-532790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-sixers-scores"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115884876413408212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}