{"id":124775,"date":"2026-02-27T03:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124775\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:44:07","slug":"tyrese-maxey-joel-embiid-lead-philadelphia-76ers-past-miami-heat-for-3rd-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124775\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid lead Philadelphia 76ers past Miami Heat for 3rd straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/tyrese-maxey-sixers-vs-heat-3-pointers-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyrese Maxey broke Allen Iverson&#8217;s 76ers franchise record for 3-pointers<\/a>, finishing with five 3s and 28 points Thursday night in Philadelphia&#8217;s 124-117 victory over the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey also had 11 assists and helped steady the Sixers after they blew a 16-point halftime lead. Joel Embiid had 26 points and 11 rebounds and Kelly Oubre scored 21 points for Philadelphia, which has won three straight after dropping its previous four.<\/p>\n<p>Bam Adebayo had 29 points and 14 rebounds and Tyler Herro scored 25 points for the Heat, who have lost two straight.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey came in with 882 3-pointers, three behind Iverson, and broke the record with 1:38 left in the first quarter. He made all five of his 3s \u2014 a career high for a period \u2014 and scored 20 points in the first quarter alone. He finished 5 of 12 beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Maxey has 887 3-pointers midway through his sixth season; Iverson played his first 10 seasons and parts of two more for the Sixers.<\/p>\n<p>Miami took its first lead of the game on a 3 by Herro with 2:44 left, but the Heat didn&#8217;t score again. Maxey hit two free throws and then found Kelly Oubre for a 3 to put the Sixers back ahead 121-117. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sixers\/status\/2027207762027892741\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Embiid extended the lead<\/a> on a 3 with 29.2 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers led 73-57 at halftime. Miami rallied to tie it late in the third quarter, and the margin was within single digits the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Heat: Host Houston on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>76ers: At Boston on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey broke Allen Iverson&#8217;s 76ers franchise record for 3-pointers, finishing with five 3s and 28 points Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5956,5955,20359,4794,69,1002,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-124775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-basketball","tag-joel-embiid","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}