Shorthanded 76ers complete perfect road trip by blocking the beam in wild win over Kings
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...