Daily News | Joel Embiid’s career-high 59 points lifts Sixers to 105-98 victory over Utah Jazz
Joel Embiid bent over at the 76ers’ free-throw line as “M-V-P!” chants rained down from the Wells Fargo Center stands.
It was a down-to-the-wire victory over the pesky Jazz, who were supposed to be “tanking” after trading All-Stars Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert in the offseason but have instead been one of the league’s pleasant early surprises with a 10-4 record entering Sunday to sit atop the Western Conference. Embiid scored 13 first-quarter points, setting a strong tone for the second night in a row. He helped pull the Sixers out of a 14-point second-quarter hole, which his team fell into as he rested. He dropped in a game-tying shot through contact with about nine minutes to play, before swatting away a Jordan Clarkson shot and hitting a jumper to give the Sixers an 88-86 lead with less than nine minutes to play. He recorded his 10th rebound off a Tobias Harris miss at the rim .
Coach Doc Rivers continues to tinker with his rotation with James Harden out for at least a few more weeks with a foot injury.
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