{"id":476196,"date":"2024-01-16T23:41:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476196"},"modified":"2024-01-16T23:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T03:41:16","slug":"embiid-notches-41-as-76ers-defeat-nuggets-126-121","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/embiid-notches-41-as-76ers-defeat-nuggets-126-121\/","title":{"rendered":"Embiid notches 41 as 76ers defeat Nuggets 126-121"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/\">Joel Embiid<\/a> finished with 41 points and 10 assists to help the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/philadelphia-76ers\/\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> win against <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> 126-121 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA, in a battle of the last 2 league MVPs.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian finished with 25 points and 19 boards, as 11 of them were offensive rebounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joel Embiid wins the &#8220;Battle of the Bigs&#8221; as the 76ers defeat the Nuggets at home 126-121.<\/p>\n<p>Is Embiid your NBA MVP so far? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kT4N2d99Iu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kT4N2d99Iu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1747455702791012626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Maxey notched 25 points, and Tobias Harris added 24 for Philadelphia\u2019s triumph.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MVP battle tonight:<\/p>\n<p>Embiid \u2014 Jokic \u2014<br \/>\n41 PTS 25 PTS<br \/>\n7 REB 20 REB<br \/>\n10 AST 3 AST<\/p>\n<p>76ers win. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hQGAXRiqoE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hQGAXRiqoE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1747454718656327851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Joel had his 18<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive 30-point match, tying Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor for the 6<sup>th<\/sup> longest streak in the National Basketball League history.<\/p>\n<p>Both organizations played 1 of the most entertaining halves of the campaign, which finished without a winner \u2013 78:78.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIt\u2019s a big game for us &#8211; playing the defending champs &#8211; we wanted to see where we\u2019re at. We\u2019ve just got to stay at it, and keep working.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tobias31?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@tobias31<\/a> on tonight\u2019s big W. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennMedicine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PennMedicine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lQsNTj8eRL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lQsNTj8eRL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixers\/status\/1747458800284541188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Denver will travel to Boston to face the Celtics on Friday after a nearly 9-hour flight to Philly, while the Sixers will travel to Orlando to play against the Magic on the same day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VD6OTLaCSJc?si=zobPwCMOm17yyJ7A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid finished with 41 points and 10 assists to help the Philadelphia 76ers win against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets 126-121 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476197,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17837,16840],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17913,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Joel outshined Nikola in the NBA MVPs matchup at Wells Fargo Center.","video":["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\/476196"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476200,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476196\/revisions\/476200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476196"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476196"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}