Joel Embiid hits game-winner with seconds left, 76ers edge Jazz

Joel Embiid hit a game-winning shot with 5 seconds left and James Harden fired in 18 of his 31 factors within the fourth quarter to guide the Philadelphia 76ers to a 118-117 win over the Utah Jazz on Saturday in Salt Lake City.

Embiid completed with 30 factors and 7 rebounds, Tyrese Maxey scored 21 factors and Shake Milton contributed 17 because the 76ers started a five-game Western Conference highway journey on the fitting observe.

Jordan Clarkson led the short-handed Jazz with 38 factors, 9 rebounds and 5 assists. He momentarily put Utah forward with a go-ahead bucket with 13 seconds left after the Jazz rallied out of a 20-point, first-half deficit.

Talen Horton-Tucker scored 20 factors off the bench for Utah, which performed with out 4 regulars, together with main scorer Lauri Markkanen, who was sidelined with a left hip contusion.

Rookie Walker Kessler totaled 15 factors and 12 rebounds and Mike Conley added 14 factors and eight assists for the Jazz, who had received two in a row.

The Sixers led the vast majority of the way in which after storming to a 20-point lead within the first quarter.

Trailing by 16, Utah pulled inside 5 with 3:18 left within the first half due to an 11-0 run that included back-to-back dunks by Kessler and consecutive buckets from Clarkson.

Philadelphia went into the locker room on the half up 66-56 after Embiid banked in a 3-pointer with 1.6 seconds remaining.

Embiid gave the 76ers a 10-point lead within the third quarter with a three-point play. Utah responded with a 9-0 run to chop the result in one.

Utah scored the ultimate 5 factors of the third quarter after which pulled even at 90-90 within the fourth on a Clarkson basket.

The 76ers regained an eight-point lead with an 11-3 run, together with three 3-pointers by Harden in a minute-and-a-half stretch.

Clarkson stored the Jazz in it with 17 factors within the fourth quarter. After Embiid cut up a pair of free throws, Kessler tipped in a Clarkson miss to present the Jazz their first lead of the sport, 115-114, with 33.9 seconds remaining.

The groups traded leads within the waning moments, with Harden making a brief jumper adopted by Clarkson hitting his go-ahead shot previous to Embiid’s game-winner.

–Field Level Media/Reuters