Joel Embiid's historic evening against the New York Knicks was partly marred by several supposedly 'dirty' plays.
New York City and Philadelphia can't agree on much, but each appears equally peeved at officiating three games into respective NBA teams' Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series.
Philadelphia's Joel Embiid was the undisputed star of Thursday's game with 50 points on 13-of-19 shooting, but several Knicks were shocked that the reigning NBA MVP was allowed to get that far after the first period. Embiid was the center of a couple of dangerous, painful foul calls that some New Yorkers believed warranted ejection.
Instead Embiid perhaps rendered the incidents long forgotten in the eyes of the casual viewer when he scored 33 of his 50 points in a dominant second half, joining Allen Iverson and Billy Cunningham as the only Sixers to hit the half-century mark in scoring in a playoff game. But his antics and their aftermath lingered in the Knicks' locker room.
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