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NBA: Embiid scores playoff career-high 50 points as 76ers beat Knicks; series at 2-1

NBA: Embiid scores playoff career-high 50 points as 76ers beat Knicks; series at 2-1

Game 3 of the Eastern Conference first-round series between the Philadelphia 76ers and the New York Knicks encapsulated the legend of Joel Embiid, who, despite dealing with a niggling knee injury and Bell’s palsy, dropped a playoffs career-high 50 points. The Sixers defeated the Knicks 125-114 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Thursday night to draw one back and put the series at 2-1,...