The Philadelphia 76ers, fueled by 36 points from Tyrese Maxey and a triple-double from Joel Embiid, beat the Houston Rockets 128-122 in an NBA overtime thriller on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Cameroonian big man Embiid scored 32 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and handed out 10 assists, posting the ninth triple-double of his career to help the Sixers end the Rockets’ three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
Rockets star Kevin Durant scored 36 points and Amen Thompson added 17, but Thompson was scoreless in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Even so, the Rockets led by nine midway through the final frame, Maxey tying it at 115-115 with 40.1 seconds left.<\/p>\n
Durant missed a potential go-ahead basket then blocked a Maxey shot as they went to overtime, the Sixers arguing for a goaltending call that would have sealed a win for them but didn’t come.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia opened the extra session with five straight points and held on for a win punctuated by a Maxey dunk.<\/p>\n
“We locked in,” Embiid said. “Obviously it starts on defense. We played faster, we didn’t walk the ball up. At the end of fourth and overtime we executed.”<\/p>\n
Embiid said Philadelphia did a better job guarding Durant in the second half.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, it’s KD,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I told the guys at half-time in the first half it was too easy for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just told them we needed to lock in and kind of shrink the floor and then we did a better job of that in the second half.”<\/p>\n
In Dallas, Naji Marshall scored 30 points and handed out nine assists to lead the Mavericks to a fourth straight victory, 123-115 over the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n
Rookie Cooper Flagg and Max Christie added 21 points apiece for the Mavericks, who withstood a 38-point performance from Warriors star Stephen Curry including eight three-pointers.<\/p>\n
The Warriors have lost two straight since losing Jimmy Butler for the season with a torn knee ligament.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Kuminga, pressed into service due to Butler’s injury, scored 10 points for the Warriors before departing in the second quarter after hyperextending his left knee.<\/p>\n
It’s more uncertainty for the Warriors and Kuminga, who had reportedly demanded a trade after \u00a0being benched for 16 games by coach Steve Kerr.<\/p>\n
The Chicago Bulls welcomed the return of Australian point guard Josh Giddey with a 120-115 victory over the Timberwolves in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Giddey, sidelined since December 20 with a hamstring injury, came off the bench to score 21 points.<\/p>\n
Julius Randle led all scorers with 30 points for Minnesota as T’Wolves star Anthony Edwards finished with 20, connecting on just nine of his 25 attempts from the field.<\/p>\n
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