{"id":236822,"date":"2026-04-18T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236822\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:17:54","slug":"tyrese-maxey-scores-31-and-sixers-beat-magic-109-97-to-advance-out-of-sofi-play-in-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236822\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey scores 31 and Sixers beat Magic 109-97 to advance out of SoFi Play-In Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyrese Maxey stars as the 76ers move past Orlando in the SoFi Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Tyrese Maxey scored 31 points, V.J. Edgecombe added 19 points and 11 rebounds, and the Philadelphia 76ers weathered\u00a0the absence of Joel Embiid\u00a0to beat the Orlando Magic 109-97<\/a> on Wednesday night and secure the No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Sixers moved on to a first-round series<\/a> that begins Sunday at Boston.<\/p>\n

Desmond Bane and the Magic aren\u2019t done yet. They will host Charlotte on Friday night in the SoFi Play-In Tournament<\/a> finale, with the winner earning the No. 8 seed in the East and a first-round matchup<\/a> with Detroit.<\/p>\n

The Hornets held on to beat Miami 127-126<\/a> when\u00a0Miles Bridges blocked Davion Mitchell\u2019s attempt\u00a0at a winning layup at the buzzer.<\/p>\n

Charlotte\u2019s LaMelo Ball will play against Orlando, although he was fined $35,000 for what the league said was an uncalled flagrant foul when he tripped Bam Adebayo,\u00a0causing a back injury that forced the Miami star out of the game.<\/p>\n

Embiid had an emergency appendectomy last week in Houston.<\/p>\n

While the 76ers haven\u2019t given a timetable for his return, the two-time scoring champion returned to the team on Wednesday, surprising teammates in the locker room and watching the game from the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey stars as the 76ers move past Orlando in the SoFi Play-In Tournament. PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Tyrese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105350,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-236822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-76ers-win","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}