{"id":394771,"date":"2026-01-06T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394771\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:35:11","slug":"nuggets-125-124-76ers-6-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394771\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets 125-124 76ers (6 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA — \u2014 Bruce Brown<\/a> scored 19 points and got the winning bucket in overtime off a goaltending call on Joel Embiid<\/a>, and Jalen Pickett<\/a> had 29 points to lead the short-handed Denver Nuggets<\/a> to a 125-124 win over the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Embiid was whistled for the decisive goaltend when he tried to block Brown’s running layup with 5.3 seconds left. Tyrese Maxey<\/a> missed a winning floater for the Sixers at the horn.<\/p>\n

Embiid scored 32 points \u2014 the fourth time in his last eight games he has scored 30 \u2014 and Maxey had 28<\/p>\n

The Nuggets played without three-time MVP Nikola Jokic<\/a> \u2014 out at least until the end of the month with a with a hyperextended left knee<\/a> \u2014 Jamal Murray<\/a>, Aaron Gordon<\/a>, Christian Braun<\/a> and others a night after a loss at Brooklyn.<\/a><\/p>\n

The entire regular starting lineup sat out, and the Nuggets had only nine available players.<\/p>\n

Peyton Watson<\/a> added 24 points for Denver.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets refused to use their lighter roster as an excuse to pack it in against the Sixers.<\/p>\n

Hunter Tyson<\/a> converted a four-point play that gave Denver a 102-100 lead in the fourth and Pickett followed with a 2-footer that forced the 76ers into a timeout and served as the highlights of a 14-0 run.<\/p>\n

Brown snapped a tie game with a 3-pointer and made 2 of 3 free throws for a 120-115 lead when he was fouled on a 3-pointer on the next possession. That miss in the middle doomed Denver in regulation.<\/p>\n

VJ Edgecombe<\/a> hit a 3 that made it 120-118 and Maxey tied the game on a driving layup with 49 seconds left that sent the game into OT tied 120-all. Edgecombe, the No. 3 pick of the draft and having a sensational rookie season, also gave the Sixers their last lead in OT on a dunk just before Brown’s goaltended winner.<\/p>\n

The 76ers returned from a 3-2 road trip \u2014 that included all three wins on the backend. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Denver plays Wednesday at Boston.<\/p>\n

The 76ers host Washington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA — \u2014 Bruce Brown scored 19 points and got the winning bucket in overtime off a goaltending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-394771","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\/394771","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=394771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}