Tyrese Maxey scored a career-high 54 points and tied the game by hitting two free throws with seven seconds left in the fourth quarter of the Philadelphia 76ers’ 123-114 overtime victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Maxey’s previous career high was a 52-point performance in a 133-126,\u00a0double-overtime victory<\/a>\u00a0over San Antonio on April 7, 2024. He also had nine assists and played over 46 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n Maxey, who entered Thursday averaging a league-high 40.3 minutes, had played 39 minutes one night earlier in a\u00a0121-112 home loss<\/a>\u00a0to the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n Milwaukee’s Ryan Rollins scored 32 points to match a career high and also had a career-best 14 assists. The Bucks have lost four of their last five games.<\/p>\n Neither team had its former league MVP available.<\/p>\n Milwaukee’s\u00a0Giannis Antetokounmpo,<\/a>\u00a0the MVP in 2019 and 2020, got hurt\u00a0Monday at Cleveland<\/a>\u00a0and is expected to miss\u00a0about two weeks.<\/a>\u00a0The Bucks labeled it a left groin strain Monday but have since specified that it’s a left adductor strain.<\/p>\n Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, who won the award in 2023, missed a sixth straight game due to an issue with his right knee.<\/p>\n The 76ers scored the first five points in overtime on a 3-pointer from Justin Edwards \u2013 who scored just two points in regulation \u2013 and a basket from Maxey.<\/p>\n Milwaukee got the margin down to 113-112 on a driving layup from Rollins with 1:43 remaining, but Quentin Grimes hit a 3-pointer 20 seconds later and Philadelphia stayed ahead by at least two the rest of the way.<\/p>\n Milwaukee trailed 94-87 midway through the fourth quarter but rallied to take the lead on Myles Turner’s 3-pointer with 14.8 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n Philadelphia tied the game with seven seconds left when Maxey drove into the lane, drew a foul hit his free throws. Rollins missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.<\/p>\n Paul George added 21 points for Philadelphia. Bobby Portis had 19 and Kyle Kuzma 17 for Milwaukee.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n 76ers: Host the Miami Heat on Sunday.<\/p>\n Bucks: Host the Detroit Pistons on Saturday.<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey scored a career-high 54 points and tied the game by hitting two free throws with seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5956,23935,5955,23927,4794,69,1002,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-40366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-basketball","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-joel-embiid","tag-milwaukee-bucks","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\/40366","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=40366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}