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Tyrese Maxey scored a career-high 51 points as the Philadelphia 76ers ended a four-game losing streak with a 127-124 win over the Utah Jazz. <\/b><\/p>\n
Announced as an NBA All-Star reserve earlier on Thursday, the 23-year-old Maxey starred for the 76ers, who were without Joel Embiid in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n
Embiid missed the game after suffering a left knee injury in Tuesday’s defeat by the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n
Tobias Harris added 28 points for the 76ers and Kelly Oubre Jr scored 16.<\/p>\n
Lauri Markkanen responded with 28 points for the Jazz, who led 120-117 in the closing stages, but Utah could not avoid a third consecutive defeat and they have now lost six of their past eight games.<\/p>\n
Embiid, last season’s Most Valuable Player in the NBA, will be sidelined indefinitely following the a lateral meniscus injury he sustained when Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga fell on him.<\/a><\/p>\n But in his absence Maxey, who missed the previous three games with a left hamstring injury, made 17 of 27 field goals, seven three-pointers, and went 10-for-11 from the free-throw line – including two in the final 4.1 seconds.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Austin Reaves scored a season-high 32 points to help the Los Angeles Lakers<\/b> beat the Boston Celtics<\/b> 114-105.<\/p>\n Donovan Mitchell scored 25 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/b> earned a fourth straight win by beating the Memphis Grizzlies<\/b> 108-101.<\/p>\n Jalen Brunson, named an Eastern Conference All-Star earlier in the day, scored 11 of his 40 points in the final seven minutes as the New York Knicks<\/b> beat the Indiana Pacers<\/b> 109-105 to clinch a ninth straight victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n