NBA Playoffs: The New York Knicks look to close out the Philadelphia 76ers at Madison Square Garden in their game 5 match up

NEW YORK — Tyrese Maxey made his Madison Sq. Backyard reminiscence, engineering a season-saving comeback with a rapid-fire flurry that evoked recollections of Reggie Miller.

Not that he was fascinated with his personal legacy as these 3-pointers fell by way of the online.

“Going by way of my thoughts proper there was simply, discover a strategy to survive,” Maxey mentioned.

The 76ers did. Now they’re fascinated with advancing.

Maxey saved Philadelphia from elimination with seven factors within the ultimate 25 seconds of regulation, completed with 46 and led the 76ers to a 112-106 additional time victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday evening in Recreation 5 of their first-round sequence.

The Sixers trailed by six factors with 28 seconds left in regulation earlier than Maxey pulled out a comeback that had workforce coach Kevin Johnson speaking to him about Miller’s eight factors in 9 seconds for Indiana in an out-of-nowhere comeback at Madison Sq. Backyard in 1995.

Requested to explain the sensation, Maxey settled on “obligatory.”

“Like, we needed to. Our season on the road,” he mentioned.

The All-Star guard transformed a four-point play with 25 seconds remaining to chop it to 2, and after Josh Hart’s free throw, pulled up from 35 toes to tie it at 97 with 8.1 seconds left in entrance of a shocked crowd that was set to have a good time the Knicks’ second straight journey to the Jap Convention semifinals.

Joel Embiid completed with 19 factors, 16 rebounds and 10 assists for the Sixers, who will host Recreation 6 on Thursday evening.

Jalen Brunson scored 40 factors for the Knicks, who had been fascinated with a doable Recreation 1 of the second spherical at MSG on Saturday evening. As an alternative, it might be Recreation 7 of this sequence, which appeared all however over.

“It was a troublesome strategy to lose since you rise up six, eight after which we had a pair turnovers and we have to only be higher,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau mentioned. “Play more durable with the lead, use good judgement. Fourth quarter is totally different, perceive the distinction. So we are able to do higher and we are going to.”

It was the second determined rally to keep away from what appeared like sure defeat in what has been a razor-tight sequence between Atlantic Division rivals. The Knicks gained Recreation 2 after trailing by 5 factors with underneath 30 seconds remaining.

Embiid, who has been ailing and missed shootaround with a headache, did not rating like normal after coming into the sport with an NBA-leading 35 factors per recreation within the playoffs. However Maxey picked up the load, making seven 3-pointers whereas including 9 assists.

“I feel that contemplating that our No. 1 choice was struggling, for him to say, ‘All proper, I bought to place this workforce on my again and go,’ I simply saved encouraging him, like, to take his probabilities, take his pictures, make performs,” Sixers coach Nick Nurse mentioned. “And he definitely did it and bought in a rhythm and made an entire bunch of them.”

Maxey had essentially the most factors by a Sixers participant in a win to stave off elimination, surpassing Corridor of Famer Allen Iverson’s 44 in a Recreation 7 win in opposition to Milwaukee within the 2001 Jap Convention ultimate.

Maxey’s final 3-pointer bought the 76ers on the board in additional time after Brunson scored the primary 5 factors. That triggered a 9-0 run that Embiid capped with a three-point play with 1:40 remaining for a 106-102 lead, and after Brunson’s 3 tied it at 106, Kelly Oubre Jr. made the tiebreaking basket with 1:02 to go and Tobias Harris adopted with two free throws.

Harris had 19 factors and Oubre scored 14.

Hart had 18 factors and OG Anunoby 17 for the Knicks, who gained Recreation 4 at Philadelphia and did not appear as if they had been heading again there. However the Sixers’ rally to win by six meant the No. 7 seeds have outscored the Knicks by two whole factors within the sequence.

Embiid was the goal of the loud and lengthy boos earlier than the sport even began, Knicks followers indignant after his flagrant foul on Robinson in Recreation 3 in Philadelphia. That they had loads of probabilities to jeer him after Embiid additionally had 9 turnovers in a sloppy efficiency.

However because of Maxey, Embiid is likely to be enjoying in entrance of that MSG crowd yet one more time.

“It is not hostile,” Embiid mentioned of the taunts that had been incessantly profane. “I imply, I really like New York. New York is one in all my favourite cities on this planet. I’ve (had) a spot right here for the previous 5 years. I simply love New York. After which the followers, whenever you play in opposition to a workforce, they’re at all times going to select that man they usually appear to have picked me, which is enjoyable. I find it irresistible.”

Embiid shuffled slowly by way of the locker room just a little greater than an hour earlier than the sport, resting his head in his hand whereas he briefly sat earlier than going to heat up. He might have lacked vitality, however the 23-year-old Maxey, the winner of the NBA’s Most Improved Participant award, appears to have a limitless quantity.

Robinson returned after lacking Recreation 4 with a sprained left ankle, however the Knicks introduced earlier than the sport that Bojan Bogdanovic would miss the remainder of the playoffs and have surgical procedure on the left foot he injured in Recreation 4.

The Knicks, who’ve flourished when Embiid is resting within the sequence, began a 22-5 run whereas he was out within the second quarter and went up by 10 factors within the interval. They had been forward 70-69 going to the fourth.

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