Jalen Johnson scored a career-high 41 points as the Atlanta Hawks clinched a dramatic 142-134 double-overtime victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n
The teams were tied at 115-115 at the end of the fourth quarter and 126-126 following the first five-minute period of overtime.<\/p>\n
But, after Tyrese Maxey’s driving lay-up brought the 76ers level at 132-132, Johnson responded with a pair of three-pointers to help Atlanta move clear.<\/p>\n
Maxey led with 44 points for the 76ers, who welcomed back key man Joel Embiid from knee soreness following a nine-game absence.<\/p>\n
Embiid scored 18 points in 30 minutes on his return to action.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, LeBron James missed the Los Angeles Lakers’ 133-121 win over the New Orleans Pelicans in order to rest a lingering problem with his left foot.<\/p>\n
“It is an injury he’s had in the past,” Lakers coach JJ Redick told ESPN. <\/p>\n
“It’s something we’ve had to manage in the past. [We’re] just being cautious.”<\/p>\n
Luka Doncic scored 20 of his 34 points in the first quarter to help the Lakers on their way to a seventh straight victory, with Austin Reaves adding 33 points.<\/p>\n
Defending champions Oklahoma City Thunder extended their winning streak to 12 matches with victory at the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 26 points in a 123-115 win for the Western Conference leaders, who have won 20 of their 21 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Johnson scored a career-high 41 points as the Atlanta Hawks clinched a dramatic 142-134 double-overtime victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-318151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}