Philadelphia 76ers: 3 takeaways from Game 3 vs. Heat

He has attempted just one three-pointer in 276 minutes of action in the regular season in playoffs, and is shooting just.390 from the field and.476 from the foul line.

Brown said on Thursday that the decision to activate Embiid will be a collaborative one involving team doctors, the player and other members of the organization. They dropped the Spurs 110-97 in San Antonio Thursday giving them 18 straight wins in the Western Conference playoffs.

“They were doing everything they could to take me out”, Embiid said with a laugh as he sat at his locker after the game, according to ESPN. Simmons finished with 19 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists and was vital in the explosions of Dario Saric and Marco Belinelli, who had 21 points each.

“It was annoying”, he said of the black carbon-fibre mask.

A fluke play temporarily broke the lenses off of Embiid’s mask in the second, allowing the Heat to fully close the gap and take the lead at 46-43 with seven to play in the frame.

Game 4 will tip off in Miami at 2:30 on Saturday afternoon. And given what we have already seen, and what they put on display in Miami on Thursday night … well, if your favorite team hails from anywhere but Philly, “scary” seems like as good a word as any.

The Warriors have yet to announce the severity of Durant’s ankle injury. He had to get a doctor’s clearance from the team and league approval for the mask and goggle combination that sometimes slipped off his face.

76ers coach Brett Brown pointed to the way his team moved the ball.

Meanwhile, 76ers center Joel Embiid scored 23 points in his return after a 10-game absence to recover from surgery to fix a broken left orbital bone.

Goran Dragic was the scoring leader for the Heat, totaling 23 points and eight assists.

Philadelphia landed the first blow, going on a 15-3 run in the first quarter to take a 32-21 lead. I like that. I felt like it was time to go to work, I was lucky the shots were falling, the threes, and on the defensive end I think I got a block too.

On the season, the Heat are averaging 103.4 points, 43.5 rebounds and 22.7 assists per game.

Missing the rest of the regular season in the process, Embiid hoped to feature soon after undergoing surgery and clearing the concussion protocol but was rested for Game 2 when a vintage Dwyane Wade performance pegged the series back to 1-1 earlier this week.

Damian Lillard led Portland with 20 points but also missed nine of 14 shots.