PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid scored a season-high 51 factors and grabbed 12 rebounds, and the Philadelphia 76ers used an enormous fourth quarter to shut out the Minnesota Timberwolves for a 127-113 win on Wednesday evening.
Tyrese Maxey scored 35 factors as Philadelphia (19-8) received for the seventh time in eight video games, bouncing again properly after a 108-104 loss to Chicago on Monday evening.
Minnesota (20-6) received 27 factors from Anthony Edwards, 23 factors from Karl-Anthony Towns and 21 from Jaden McDaniels. The Timberwolves entered Wednesday evening as winners of 9 of its final 10 video games and possessors of the league’s greatest document.
It was Embiid’s seventh profession sport with at the very least 50 factors. He additionally recorded his twelfth straight sport with 30 or extra factors and 10-plus rebounds. It is the NBA’s longest such streak since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did it in 16 straight video games for the Milwaukee Bucks within the 1971-72 season.
The solely different gamers to have 12 or extra video games of 30-10 in NBA historical past in addition to Embiid and Abdul-Jabbar are Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor and Walt Bellamy.
A sport that was billed as a conflict of defensive kinds turned towards the Sixers throughout a powerful show of offensive strikes by Embiid within the third quarter. He scored 19 of Philadelphia‘s 26 points in the period and kept the Sixers in the lead at 90-87 going into the fourth.
Maxey scored 15 points in the final quarter, most of that coming during a five-minute stretch at the beginning of the period when Embiid was on the bench. No other Philadelphia player scored in double figures for the second game in a row.
Philadelphia ended up losing starting guard De’Anthony Melton within the second half with a left thigh contusion.
UP NEXT
Timberwolves: Return dwelling for a Thursday evening sport towards the Los Angeles Lakers.
76ers: Host Toronto on Friday evening.
