{"id":427360,"date":"2026-01-23T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427360\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:00:09","slug":"76ers-128-122-rockets-jan-22-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427360\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers 128-122 Rockets (Jan 22, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA — \u2014 Tyrese Maxey<\/a> scored six of his 36 points in overtime, Joel Embiid<\/a> had 32 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists and the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> defeated the Houston Rockets<\/a> 128-122 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Kelly Oubre Jr<\/a>. added 26 points for the 76ers, who evened their home record at 12-12. Paul George<\/a> returned to the lineup for Philadelphia after missing two straight games due to left knee injury management and had 10 points.<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant<\/a> scored 36 points for the Rockets, who had won three in a row. Amen Thompson<\/a> added 17 for Houston.<\/p>\n

The 76ers scored the first five points of the extra session, on George\u2019s 3-pointer and VJ Edgecombe\u2019s follow from close range after he grabbed an offensive rebound, to take control. <\/p>\n

Philadelphia had a chance to win it in regulation, but Durant blocked Maxey\u2019s driving layup attempt with 13.2 seconds left. Maxey added 10 assists. <\/p>\n

The 76ers opened up a 94-88 lead early in the fourth quarter, but it took 3:23 for Philadelphia to score another point. Reed Sheppard\u2019s third 3-pointer of the quarter put Houston up 105-96 with 6:25 remaining. The 76ers tied it twice late in regulation, the last on Maxey\u2019s layup with 40.1 seconds left. <\/p>\n

Aaron Holiday<\/a> (back spasms) was downgraded from questionable to out for the Rockets. Houston also was without center Steven Adams<\/a> (left ankle sprain).<\/p>\n

Hall of Famer Julius \u201cDr. J\u201d Erving, who led the 76ers to the 1983 NBA title, was in attendance. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Rockets: At Detroit on Friday night.<\/p>\n

76ers: Host Knicks on Saturday. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA — \u2014 Tyrese Maxey scored six of his 36 points in overtime, Joel Embiid had 32 points,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-427360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427360","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=427360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}