The Sixers could not sustain a fast start and fell to the Toronto Raptors, 93-88, in the first game of a key late-season back-to-back set.
The Wells Fargo Center crowd rose to its feet with about a minute remaining, trying to will James Harden to the basket with the 76ers trailing by three points. The All-Star point guard slid past his defender, but his layup attempt rolled off the rim.
The Raptors won without All-Star point guard Fred VanVleet and starting wing OG Anunoby against a Sixers team they could meet in the playoffs. This would have been the matchup if the postseason began Sunday, and the Raptors won their first play-in game. But by the end of the night, the Sixers had fallen into a tie with the Boston Celtics for third place in a stacked Eastern Conference. The Sixers and Raptors will play for the final time of the regular season April 7 in Toronto.
Toronto coach Nick Nurse said before the game that his defense had “a lot of things on the menu” to throw at All-Stars Embiid and Harden. It largely worked, as those two and Tobias Harris combined to shoot 13-of-41 from the floor. Harden also missed two free throws with less than three minutes to play that would have given the Sixers a one-point lead.
“When you don’t move the ball, you’re not gonna get good shots,” Rivers said. “... It happens. The sun’s coming up tomorrow and we’ll be fine, but it’s just no fun to watch when it does happen.” “We came out of the one timeout and we had Joel deep [and] we threw the ball away. That kind of stuff can’t happen.”
The MVP contender missed eight of his 12 attempts from the floor and shot only two free throws in the first half, although he did convert an acrobatic finish late in the second that marked the Sixers’ only field goal in the final three minutes.Harden began playing with the Sixers after the All-Star break, with 24 regular-season games remaining. The Sixers crossed Game 12 with Sunday’s loss and are now 8-3 when Harden is in the lineup.
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