{"id":361686,"date":"2025-12-21T03:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361686\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:01:07","slug":"76ers-121-114-mavericks-21-dec-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361686\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers 121-114 Mavericks (21 Dec, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA — \u2014 Tyrese Maxey<\/a> scored 38 points, including seven during a key fourth-quarter stretch, and VJ Edgecombe<\/a> added 26 as the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> defeated the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> 121-114 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Dominick Barlow<\/a> added 21 points for Philadelphia, which played without Joel Embiid<\/a> (illness\/right knee injury management) and Paul George<\/a> (left knee injury management). Embiid missed his second consecutive game and 16th of the season. <\/p>\n

The 76ers have won six of eight.<\/p>\n

Cooper Flagg<\/a> and Anthony Davis<\/a> each scored 24 points for Dallas.<\/p>\n

Flagg, who turns 19 on Sunday, began play second among NBA rookies in both scoring (18.6 points per game) and rebounding (6.4 rpg). <\/p>\n

Edgecombe, selected two picks after Flagg in this year’s draft, had 23 points and a highlight-reel dunk in Philadelphia\u2019s 116-107 win over the Knicks in New York on Friday night. He entered third among rookies at 15.6 points per game. <\/p>\n

Flagg\u2019s short jumper tied it at 104 with 8:56 remaining before Philadelphia took control behind Maxey and Edgecombe. Maxey scored seven points and Edgecombe the other four during an 11-0 run over the next 2:21, capped by Maxey’s 3-pointer that put the Sixers ahead 115-104 with 6:30 to play. <\/p>\n

Maxey entered third in the league in scoring (31.4 ppg).<\/p>\n

Flagg drew \u201coohs\u201d and \u201caahs\u201d from the Philly crowd several times, including when he dribbled behind the back to set up a driving layup early in the third quarter and after a two-handed dunk along the baseline later in the period. He also went coast-to-coast for an impressive layup late in the first half. <\/p>\n

Edgecombe was hot early, scoring 14 points in eight first-quarter minutes. <\/p>\n

Davis (illness) and Klay Thompson<\/a> (left knee soreness) both played for the Mavs despite being listed as probable and questionable, respectively, before the game. Thompson had 10 points and Davis grabbed 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Mavericks: Play at New Orleans on Monday night.<\/p>\n

76ers: Host the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA — \u2014 Tyrese Maxey scored 38 points, including seven during a key fourth-quarter stretch, and VJ Edgecombe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-361686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}