Tyrese Maxey saves Sixers from elimination with huge finish in OT win that cuts Knicks’ lead to 3-2

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 excited about his personal legacy as these 3-pointers fell by way of the web.

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

The 76ers did. Now they’re excited about advancing.

Maxey saved Philadelphia from elimination with seven factors within the last 25 seconds of regulation, finished with 46 and led the 76ers to a 112-106 time beyond regulation victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday night time in Sport 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 crew 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 “necessary.”

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

The All-Star guard converted a four-point play with 25 seconds remaining to chop it to 2, and after Josh Hart’s free throw, pulled up from 35 feet to tie it at 97 with 8.1 seconds left in entrance of a surprised 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 Sport 6 on Thursday night time.

Jalen Brunson scored 40 factors for the Knicks, who had been excited about a doable Sport 1 of the second spherical at MSG on Saturday night time. As a substitute, it might be Sport 7 of this sequence, which appeared all however over.

“It was a troublesome method to lose since you stand up six, eight after which we had a pair turnovers and we’ve bought to simply be higher,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau stated. “Play harder with the lead, use good judgement. Fourth quarter is totally different, perceive the distinction. So we will 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 received Sport 2 after trailing by 5 factors with below 30 seconds remaining.

Embiid, who has been ailing and missed shootaround with a headache, didn’t rating like ordinary 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 believe that contemplating that our No. 1 possibility was struggling, for him to say, ‘All proper, I bought to place this crew on my again and go,’ I simply saved encouraging him, like, to take his possibilities, take his pictures, make performs,” Sixers coach Nick Nurse stated. “And he actually 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 Sport 7 win in opposition to Milwaukee within the 2001 Jap Convention last.

Maxey’s final 3-pointer bought the 76ers on the board in time beyond regulation 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 received Sport 4 at Philadelphia and didn’t 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 Sport 3 in Philadelphia. That they had loads of possibilities to jeer him after Embiid additionally had 9 turnovers in a sloppy efficiency.

However due to Maxey, Embiid could be enjoying in entrance of that MSG crowd yet one more time.

“It’s not hostile,” Embiid stated of the taunts that had been continuously profane. “I imply, I really like New York. New York is one among my favourite cities on the planet. I’ve (had) a spot right here for the previous 5 years. I simply love New York. After which the followers, if you play in opposition to a crew, they’re all the time going to choose that man and so they appear to have picked me, which is enjoyable. I like it.”

Embiid shuffled slowly by way of the locker room slightly 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 Sport 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 Sport 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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