{"id":395149,"date":"2022-12-11T22:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395149"},"modified":"2022-12-11T22:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T03:00:26","slug":"embiids-53-points-power-sixers-to-comfortable-victory-over-hornets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/embiids-53-points-power-sixers-to-comfortable-victory-over-hornets\/","title":{"rendered":"Embiid\u2019s 53 points power Sixers to comfortable victory over Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroonian Joel Embiid notched 53 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 131-113 win over the Charlotte Hornets at the Wells Fargo Center on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">that\u2019s another dub. <\/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\/I8LkH77J3d\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/I8LkH77J3d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixers\/status\/1602114659871506432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was Embiid&#8217;s second 50-plus point performance of the season and the fourth 50-plus point game of his career.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the 30th game in Embiid&#8217;s career with 40 points and 10 rebounds as the only other player in franchise history to accomplish that feat was Wilt Chamberlain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">53 POINTS. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoelEmbiid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoelEmbiid<\/a> was just showing off for Arthur tonight. \ud83d\ude01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TkXkPjJ8o2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TkXkPjJ8o2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixers\/status\/1602115547101020162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tobias Harris finished with 17 points and James Harden had 14 for the Sixers.<\/p>\n<p>Injury-hit Charlotte, who have lost five straight games, was led by Kelly Oubre Jr. and Terry Rozier, who each scored 29 points.<\/p>\n<p>LaMelo Ball missed his 11th straight game with a left ankle sprain, Dennis Smith Jr. was inactive for the ninth time in his last 14 games with a left ankle sprain. There was a moment of silence before Sunday&#8217;s game for Paul Silas, the former Charlotte coach for six seasons who died at the age of 79.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers scored a season-high 41 points in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>There was a moment of silence before Sunday&#8217;s game for Paul Silas, the former Charlotte coach for six seasons who died at the age of 79.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers continue their seven-game home stand against Sacramento on Tuesday while Hornets: host Detroit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroonian Joel Embiid notched 53 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 131-113 win over the Charlotte Hornets at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395150,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17122,16841,16840],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Charlotte have lost five straight 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\/395149"}],"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=395149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395149"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395149"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}