{"id":154970,"date":"2026-04-02T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:02:09","slug":"paul-george-scores-39-points-in-philadelphia-76ers-win-over-washington-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154970\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul George scores 39 points in Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; win over Washington Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul George scored a season-high 39 points, and the Philadelphia 76ers overcame Joel Embiid&#8217;s absence because of an illness in a 153-131 victory over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>George played his fourth game following a 25-game suspension for violating the NBA&#8217;s anti-drug rules, He was 15 of 22 from the field, made 6 of 12 3-pointers and had six assists and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Maxey added 28 points and nine assists in his third game back from a finger injury, and rookie VJ Edgecombe had 23 points and 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s starters combined to shoot 45 of 65 from the floor (69.2%) and helped score 47 third-quarter points, the second-most Washington allowed in any period this season.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Gill scored a career-best 21 points for the Wizards. They have lost four in a row and 20 of 21.<\/p>\n<p>After a first half with five ties and four lead changes, the 76ers pulled away with a 24-4 run early in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia topped 150 points for the second straight Wednesday after beating Chicago 157-137 at home a week ago. The 76ers swept the four-game season series and are 11-1 in their last 12 against Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>76ers: Host Minnesota on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wizards: At Miami on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul George scored a season-high 39 points, and the Philadelphia 76ers overcame Joel Embiid&#8217;s absence because of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5956,5955,4794,69,1002,71,70,726,12955],"class_list":{"0":"post-154970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-joel-embiid","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-washington-wizards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154970","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=154970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}