{"id":394736,"date":"2022-11-23T00:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394736"},"modified":"2022-11-23T00:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T05:25:16","slug":"spirited-76ers-down-nets-simmons-booed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/spirited-76ers-down-nets-simmons-booed\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirited 76ers down Nets, Simmons booed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tobias Harris scored 24 points and a depleted Philadelphia 76ers team playing without Joel Embiid and James Harden beat Brooklyn Nets 115-106 to spoil Ben Simmons\u2019 homecoming on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">understood the assignment. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\ude99 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cryptocom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cryptocom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mheBEhzDvD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mheBEhzDvD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixers\/status\/1595248426417102849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former Philly star Simmons shrugged off the boos that rose out of the home crowd each time the mercurial guard handled the ball as there was plenty of buzz from the time the doors opened in anticipation of his return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was going to be louder,\u201d Simmons said.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving scored 23 points and Kevin Durant had 20 for the Nets but it was a hard-fought triumph for the Sixers over their Eastern Conference rivals with Embiid out with a sprained left foot, Harden still out with a tendon strain in his right foot and starting guard Tyrese Maxey also out with a broken left foot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody wants to see our team fail,\u201d Durant said. \u201cNobody likes Ben. Nobody likes Ky. Nobody likes myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SIXERS WIN!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MNm473L00k\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MNm473L00k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixers\/status\/1595248183403225088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Sixers improved to 9-8. They have won four of their last five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p\">\u201cThe toughness is what we needed,\u201d coach Doc Rivers said. \u201cTonight is a game you saw it like in front of you. Whether they played well or not, our guys were going to compete. You saw that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobias Harris scored 24 points and a depleted Philadelphia 76ers team playing without Joel Embiid and James Harden beat Brooklyn Nets 115-106 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394737,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16848,16720,16840],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Sixers won four of their last five games","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394736"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394736"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}