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76ers Stun Boston to Win Series From 3-1 Down

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Embiid and Maxey Fuel Philadelphia’s 3-1 comeback

Philadelphia ends Boston’s playoff run in historic game 7. Sixers become 14th team to rally from 3-1 deficit.


Tyrese Maxey scored 10 of his 30 in the fourth to seal the series...


Joel Embiid dropped 34 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to lead the Philadelphia 76ers past Boston 109-100 on Saturday, ending the Celtics’ playoff run in Game 7.


Boston entered with a perfect 32-0 record in series where they’d led 3-1, the best mark in NBA history. Philadelphia was on the opposite end, 0-18 when facing that deficit.


With the win, the Sixers became only the 14th team ever to come back from 3-1 down to take a playoff series.


Tyrese Maxey poured in 10 of his 30 points in a chaotic fourth quarter, helping the seventh-seeded Sixers hold off the second-seeded Celtics and finish a 3-1 series comeback. The win sends Philadelphia to an Eastern Conference semifinal against the New York Knicks.




It was the 23rd postseason meeting between the franchises, and Boston had taken the last six, eliminating Embiid in 2018, 2020, and 2023.


Embiid said he was done losing to Boston, and he and Maxey backed it up. The duo powered Philadelphia to its first series win after trailing 3-1.


“We had a talk after game five and just said, 'Hey, man, we can't let the same stuff happen over and over and over again. At some point, we've got to put a stop to it.'  
And we did,” Maxey told NBC.


The finish was messy even with Boston without Jayson Tatum, who was scratched less than two hours before tip-off due to a sore left knee.




Tatum had left late in the third quarter of Thursday’s Game 6 blowout and spent Saturday watching from the bench as Boston’s season came to an end.


After rupturing his right Achilles in last year’s playoffs, Tatum missed the first 62 regular season games but had been building momentum since returning in March.


Jaylen Brown led Boston with 34 points and nine rebounds, and Derrick White chipped in 26 points.


Boston shot 13-for-49 from three and spent the night trailing after Philadelphia opened a 15-point edge in the first quarter.


Boston rallied to grab a one-point lead midway through the second quarter, but couldn’t sustain it.


Philadelphia carried a five-point edge into halftime, then extended it in the third and went up 13 heading to the fourth.


The Celtics made one last run, trimming it to one multiple times in the final period and getting TD Garden on its feet, but they never pulled ahead. 


Maxey scored eight in a row to make it 107-98, and the Sixers held on even after Embiid limped off briefly following a knee knock.





“Just playing hard,” Embiid said of the key to victory. “We started off well, and then in the second quarter we kind of relaxed a little. Same thing with the start of the fourth.


“But we stuck together, closed it out,” said Embiid, who underwent an emergency appendectomy less than a month ago. “It's about playing hard.”




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