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Joel Embiid #21 of the Philadelphia 76ers walks to the bench against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the fourth quarter at the Wells Fargo Center on January 12, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Thunder beat the 76ers 133-114. Mitchell Leff/Getty Images/AFP
Joel Embiid hit the game-winning shot with five seconds left and James Harden scored 18 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 118-117 win over the Utah Jazz on Saturday in Salt Lake City.
Embiid finished with 30 points and seven rebounds, Tyrese Maxey scored 21 and Shake Milton contributed 17 as the 76ers started their five-game Western Conference road trip on the right foot.
James Harden and Joel Embiid each drop 30+ to lead Sixers to W in Utah 💪
Harden: 31 PTS, 6 WED, 11 AST, 4 3PM
Embiid: 30 PTS, 7 WEB pic.twitter.com/9uCdJLhyEA— NBA (@NBA) January 15, 2023
Jordan Clarkson led the shorthanded Jazz with 38 points, nine rebounds and five assists. He briefly put Utah in front with a go-ahead bucket with 13 seconds left after the Jazz rallied from a 20-point first half deficit.
Talen Horton-Tucker scored 20 points off the bench for Utah, which played without four regulars, including leading scorer Lauri Markkanen, who was sidelined with a left hip contusion.
Rookie Walker Kessler had 15 points and 12 rebounds and Mike Conley added 14 points and eight assists for the Jazz, who won their second straight.
Jordan Clarkson tonight:
38 PTS
9 WED
5 AST pic.twitter.com/957YSwYzHw— NBA (@NBA) January 15, 2023
The Sixers led the majority of the way after storming out to a 20-point lead in the first quarter.
Trailing by 16, Utah pulled within five with 3:18 left in the half, thanks to an 11-0 run, including back-to-back dunks by Kessler and consecutive buckets from Clarkson.
Philadelphia went into the locker room at the half up 66-56 after Embiid banked in a 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left.
Embiid gave the 76ers a 10-point lead in the third quarter with a three-point play. Utah responded with a 9-0 run to cut the lead in two.
Utah scored the last five points of the third quarter and then pulled even at 90-90 in the fourth on a Clarkson basket.
The 76ers pulled back by eight points with an 11-3 run, including three 3s by Harden in a minute and a half.
Clarkson held the Jazz to 17 points in the fourth quarter. After Embiid split two free throws, Kessler scored on Clarkson to give the Jazz their first lead of the game, 115-114, with 33.9 seconds left.
The teams traded leads in the waning period, with Harden making a short jumper and then Clarkson hitting a go-ahead shot before Embiid’s game-winner.
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