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It was just one game, but it appears Joel Embiid is tired of being disrespected. He's been vocal about losing out on NBA MVP honors to Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic in each of the past two seasons. Then, on Thursday, Embiid was the odd man out when Eastern Conference All-Star starters were named. Perhaps releasing a bit of frustration, the big man dropped 47 points and 18 rebounds on Saturday as his Philadelphia 76ers beat Jokic's Nuggets to earn their seventh straight victory. An extra prize for Embiid is that the win helped earn the 76ers the top spot in this week's NBA Power Ran kings , dethroning the Boston Celtics, who fell prey to the Power Ran kings Curse in a 1-3 week. The biggest risers this week were the Los Angeles Clippers, who moved into the top five and are finally starting to play like the preseason favorite many pegged them as. Moving up five spots into the top 10 are the New Yo...

The sky over Sacramento was a little darker Saturday night than it has been on recent evenings after the Philadelphia 76ers handed the Kings one of the more surprising defeats of the season. Philadelphia, playing without James Harden and Joel Embiid on the last night of a lengthy road trip, fell behind by 21 points in the second quarter of a Game many teams would have treated as a schedule loss. Instead, the 76ers , fighting for an undefeated road trip, clawed their way back into the Game . Tyrese Maxey's 15 third-quarter points sparked the comeback, but the Game itself was won on the glass. A 76ers team playing without Embiid managed to pull in 16 offensive rebounds compared to only four for the Kings.  Sacramento finished with just 25 defensive rebounds for the game, and the second-chance points they gave a Sixers team that simply wasn't equipped to outscore them otherwise proved to be the differenc...