The Sixers head to Toronto and will play the next two games without defensive ace Matisse Thybulle. Other than that, at least there wasn’t as many elbows thrown to the face tonight that we had to endure.” - Nurse, on the officiating. Again, I don’t understand why will not call them. “There was another open-handed slap to the face. Barnes did not reveal a timetable for his return but said he was “getting better each and every day.” Raptors forward Scottie Barnes sat out with a sprained left ankle suffered in Game 1. He did not return in the second.ħ6ers: Philly native and two-time South Carolina national championship coach Dawn Staley rang the ceremonial bell. He did not score and had four fouls in the first half. was a game-time decision with an illness. “He’s the most dominant player in the league,” Rivers said. Embiid had 28 points and 11 rebounds before he picked up his first foul midway through the fourth.Įmbiid played every bit like the All-Star who carried the Sixers this season. Philly’s first bucket of the third quarter? How about Harden-to-Embiid on an alley-oop that settled nerves and rattled the rim.Įmbiid scored nine more points in the third and Maxey had seven for a 95-73 lead at the end of the third. Sixers fans held their breath at the half. Embiid limped down the court on the next possession. Both stars were sprawled on the backs for several moments: Harden rubbed his neck and head. Embiid’s left ankle seemed to buckle and both players went down in a heap. Harden tried to split two defenders on a drive down the lane in the final seconds of the half and his knee crashed into Embiid’s left knee. He followed with an acrobatic layup for a 50-42 lead and suddenly the Sixers had some juice. ![]() Maxey, who had 38 points in Game 1, didn’t score until he hit a floater in the lane with 8:03 left in the second. VanVleet scored 17 points in the half and tried to keep the Raptors in the game. He matched his Game 1 total with 19 points in the quarter.Įmbiid told Nurse in the waning moments of the game that he was going to keep making all the free throws if Toronto continued to foul him.Įmbiid laughed and said he told Nurse, “respectfully, to stop b-ing about calls.” ”I just told our guys to just play through it.”Įmbiid, the NBA scoring champion who had only 19 points in Game 1, was fouled hard by Siakam and made a free throw - one of the 11 he made in the quarter on 12 attempts. “They wanted to muck the game up and play physical, Rivers said. ![]() The Raptors raced to an 11-2 lead and had the first six fouls to none for the 76ers. That’s why I picked up that early technical foul.” “I wanted myself and us to set that tone. “I didn’t really want them to set that tone,” Embiid said. Anunoby and Embiid were both whistled for technical fouls. Not even 2 minutes into the game, Anunoby shoved Embiid, Embiid shoved back and both teams had to be separated as the crowd erupted. The Raptors came ready to rumble after coach Nick Nurse accused the officials of letting the Sixers get away with hard fouls in Game 1. ![]() Pascal Siakam and Fred VanVleet each had 20. OG Anunoby led the Raptors with 26 points. ![]() The Raptors trailed by 27 points but showed some life in the fourth cutting it to 11 until Maxey, the Game 1 star, buried a 3 that got the Sixers rolling again. Game 3 in the Eastern Conference series is Wednesday in Toronto. Morant joins Artest, Arenas, Sprewell, others on list of suspended NBA players
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