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We're gonna go to him in a moment. 0:02:06.539 --> 0:02:09.979 Matt Murphy will have our postgame coverage, but coach Nurse 0:02:10.019 --> 0:02:12.379 has already made his way to the best of our understanding, 0:02:12.419 --> 0:02:13.499 here is seventy six. 0:02:13.419 --> 0:02:19.579 Seco Certainly, the way they were scheming defensively, they were 0:02:20.099 --> 0:02:23.539 trying to plug, you know, off off of him, so 0:02:23.579 --> 0:02:27.379 he had some some really good looks. But again he's 0:02:27.939 --> 0:02:30.379 you know, he's he's capable shooter. 0:02:30.779 --> 0:02:30.939 Now. 0:02:30.979 --> 0:02:33.619 That was as obviously a special night, and he threw 0:02:33.659 --> 0:02:36.259 a couple a couple of funny ones in one funny 0:02:36.259 --> 0:02:39.619 one for sure, but he also I've been saying to 0:02:39.659 --> 0:02:43.219 you guys, he's much healthier now than he was two 0:02:43.259 --> 0:02:45.859 weeks ago. Just feeling I mean, the first thing he 0:02:45.859 --> 0:02:47.579 said to message, don't want to shoot. He goes if youse, 0:02:47.619 --> 0:02:49.139 I just coach, I just feel so much better are 0:02:49.179 --> 0:02:52.259 physically and said, well, it shows. And he was battling 0:02:53.579 --> 0:02:56.099 all night defensively as well. So it's good to see 0:02:56.179 --> 0:03:08.979 him back playing well. Yeah, I mean I think it's 0:03:09.059 --> 0:03:11.659 just kind of what we have left right now, right, 0:03:12.139 --> 0:03:17.699 I mean, Drumm and kJ are out did last game, 0:03:18.779 --> 0:03:23.299 certainly need to give Tyrese some rest, and decided to 0:03:23.339 --> 0:03:28.819 bring both veteran point guards together when Tyrese goes out, 0:03:30.579 --> 0:03:34.139 And normally we would bring somebody else back in, like 0:03:34.259 --> 0:03:36.779 kJ would probably be in there, but when it was 0:03:36.819 --> 0:03:38.899 Tyrese's time to come back in, we just left the 0:03:38.939 --> 0:03:44.019 three guys because again just absent players, and they did 0:03:44.019 --> 0:03:45.739 a heck of a job. I mean we went to 0:03:45.819 --> 0:03:48.339 his own right away both times they checked in and 0:03:48.419 --> 0:03:50.859 got got a couple of stops out of that, but 0:03:50.939 --> 0:03:52.979 that was just just enough kind of buying time. And 0:03:52.979 --> 0:03:55.699 then I thought those guys all battled. You know, Kyle 0:03:55.739 --> 0:03:59.219 had a hell of a game, just battling and physical 0:03:59.259 --> 0:04:03.419 and rebounding and and you know, just organizing the team 0:04:03.459 --> 0:04:10.019 at the offensive end. The Yeah, I mean, it's it's 0:04:10.939 --> 0:04:17.059 it just gives them both a chance to alternate bringing 0:04:17.059 --> 0:04:20.419 the ball up the floor. I just think sometimes you 0:04:20.539 --> 0:04:23.299 leave you know, Kyle out there by himself or whatever, 0:04:23.379 --> 0:04:25.739 and then there's gets some up court pressure and now 0:04:25.739 --> 0:04:29.099 you can just let Reggie initiate some stuff and and 0:04:30.059 --> 0:04:31.979 gets Kyle off the ball a little bit more. 0:04:32.099 --> 0:04:32.299 Yeah. 0:04:41.819 --> 0:04:43.939 Yeah, I mean listen, I mean ty Reese when he's 0:04:43.979 --> 0:04:47.459 aggressive like this and and doing just enough turn in 0:04:47.499 --> 0:04:50.099 the corner and throwing the jets on on downhill right, 0:04:50.219 --> 0:04:53.419 just enough of that, and then that's gonna certainly open 0:04:53.499 --> 0:04:57.219 up some some you know, wider drift drift threes and 0:04:57.219 --> 0:05:01.699 stuff like that. And and you know, I think, I 0:05:01.699 --> 0:05:04.099 think we got a huge bucket. Well it wasn't a bucket, 0:05:04.099 --> 0:05:06.219 it was a file. But when the game was going 0:05:06.219 --> 0:05:08.499 haywire there for a while, we finally got the ball 0:05:08.539 --> 0:05:11.779 across mid court and run a side screen and roll 0:05:11.819 --> 0:05:14.579 with tyres and Joel, and Joel rolled hard and we 0:05:14.659 --> 0:05:16.539 hit him and he got got fouled. That was kind 0:05:16.539 --> 0:05:19.859 of like a stabilizing possession. So those guys, I mean, 0:05:20.099 --> 0:05:23.299 pretty dangerous when you can both guys can shoot the 0:05:23.339 --> 0:05:34.099 three and got size and quickness in that. That combination. 0:05:32.779 --> 0:05:37.299 Change you guys are. 0:05:40.259 --> 0:05:44.339 Yeah, I mean I think so, I think again, like uh, 0:05:44.619 --> 0:05:48.699 we just we just are finally figuring out kind of rolls, 0:05:51.779 --> 0:05:54.099 rotations no matter who's in, no matter who's there and 0:05:54.139 --> 0:05:59.859 who isn't organizations a lot better just organization of execution 0:06:00.019 --> 0:06:01.339 and things like that. And then and then I think 0:06:01.379 --> 0:06:05.739 our defense has certainly become a lot more physical and tough. 0:06:06.059 --> 0:06:07.099 Right We're just we're. 0:06:06.899 --> 0:06:11.739 We're giving ourselves a chance because we're we're really you know, guarding. 0:06:13.819 --> 0:06:16.739 Well way better, way better? Yeah. 0:06:16.859 --> 0:06:23.739 Really, yep, organizations, how import of the first identity as. 0:06:23.619 --> 0:06:25.699 The well, it's really important. 0:06:25.739 --> 0:06:25.899 I think. 0:06:25.979 --> 0:06:27.939 I think two things show up tonight that we had 0:06:28.019 --> 0:06:30.739 kind of consistently last year is low turnovers and great 0:06:30.819 --> 0:06:33.499 free throw shooting, which we haven't had much this year. 0:06:33.499 --> 0:06:37.619 I met, Really, those are two really really important things. Again, 0:06:37.699 --> 0:06:39.979 I think our guys just are organized now. They did 0:06:39.979 --> 0:06:42.059 a really good job of helping each other figuring out 0:06:42.099 --> 0:06:44.939 what exactly we were trying to do on offense and 0:06:44.979 --> 0:06:47.659 where the spacing was, et cetera. We just we just 0:06:47.659 --> 0:06:50.939 got a little, hey, why are there in a couple 0:06:50.979 --> 0:06:55.779 of weird scenarios? But we can we can shore that 0:06:55.899 --> 0:06:58.699 up too, I think, but just much much better organization. 0:06:59.579 --> 0:07:02.459 Six Ers coach Nick Nurse his point about the free 0:07:02.499 --> 0:07:07.499 throw in nineteen out of nineteen and the turnovers only six. 0:07:08.219 --> 0:07:11.019 You know, when teams lose games at any level when 0:07:11.019 --> 0:07:13.739 they miss free throws to turn the ball over. Isn't 0:07:13.779 --> 0:07:16.699 that like a common frame, well, turnovers and free throw shooting, 0:07:16.699 --> 0:07:19.659 it really caused well the Sixers, that was something that 0:07:19.699 --> 0:07:22.899 they had last year, and frankly within bead it's been 0:07:23.019 --> 0:07:27.579 really positive. Joelle has been in this limited time playing 0:07:27.699 --> 0:07:29.539 so far this year the number one free throw shooter 0:07:29.539 --> 0:07:32.699 in the NBA tonight seven for seven and his coach 0:07:32.779 --> 0:07:35.819 had that late possession where he got fouled. Two big 0:07:35.859 --> 0:07:38.459 free throws there. Paul George made four down the stretch 0:07:39.139 --> 0:07:42.819 as well, and then he mentioned Kyle Lowry. Lowry, he 0:07:43.019 --> 0:07:47.659 played only twenty minutes. He had five points, three rebounds, 0:07:48.139 --> 0:07:50.939 and four ASI. But again, a coach, especially a coach 0:07:50.979 --> 0:07:55.419 that's so aware of the contributions of a Kyle Lowry, 0:07:55.539 --> 0:07:58.619 not just now but throughout his career, he know that 0:07:58.699 --> 0:08:01.339 Kyle had a really good game. And Lowry was plus 0:08:01.459 --> 0:08:05.499 twenty I mean that is actually Al Horford was plus 0:08:05.539 --> 0:08:08.059 twenty two. But otherwise that's the best total in the 0:08:08.099 --> 0:08:11.939 game by way of comparison, Yabuselee plus eighteen and Reggie 0:08:12.019 --> 0:08:15.939 Jackson plus eleven. So the Sixers bench was superb in 0:08:16.059 --> 0:08:19.059 this game, and it was you know, they had nineteen 0:08:19.139 --> 0:08:22.459 points and Boston's bench had twelve, but it was more 0:08:22.499 --> 0:08:24.619 than just a scoring It was like I said, Yah, 0:08:24.619 --> 0:08:27.539 Busiley made a lot of hustle plays and a career 0:08:27.699 --> 0:08:31.259 night from three by Caleb Martin was seven twenty three 0:08:31.299 --> 0:08:34.179 points total for him. So a huge win for the Sixers. 0:08:34.499 --> 0:08:37.699 They continue to play well here in December and they 0:08:37.739 --> 0:08:40.579 get a really hard fought, big win in Boston on 0:08:40.699 --> 0:08:43.459 Christmas Night. Over the season again the final one to 0:08:43.499 --> 0:08:46.379 eighteen to one fourteen. Will send it back to Matt Murphy. 0:08:46.699 --> 0:08:49.419 With more postgame coverage from our flagships. 0:08:50.219 --> 0:08:52.859 I've got more on the perfect game at the free 0:08:52.859 --> 0:08:56.459 throw line. That's something that legitimately only happens about once 0:08:56.499 --> 0:08:59.659 a year, at least in six Ers recent history. They 0:08:59.659 --> 0:09:02.419 had not yet done it this season. Tonight nineteen for 0:09:02.579 --> 0:09:06.179 nineteen on Christmas Day in Boston. They the last time 0:09:06.219 --> 0:09:08.219 they had two games in a season where they went 0:09:08.299 --> 0:09:12.859 perfect wasn't since twenty seventeen eighteen. So you'll take these 0:09:12.899 --> 0:09:15.219 one hundred percent games at the line. They needed all 0:09:15.259 --> 0:09:18.939 those makes. They win it by four. Just a fantastic win. 0:09:19.019 --> 0:09:22.059 They're eleventh of the season. I know Drew Holliday was 0:09:22.099 --> 0:09:24.779 missing from the Boston lineup. But the Sixers were without 0:09:24.899 --> 0:09:28.659 four rotation players as well, so it was kind of 0:09:28.659 --> 0:09:31.339 like a playoff game in that aspect where a couple 0:09:31.339 --> 0:09:33.899 of guys came off the bench. You mentioned their impact, Tom, 0:09:33.899 --> 0:09:35.859 but let's talk about a couple of starters. I'll get 0:09:35.899 --> 0:09:38.659 to Maxie. But how about Caleb Martin. Those seven made 0:09:38.699 --> 0:09:40.539 threes were the most he's made in his career, and 0:09:40.579 --> 0:09:42.659 you said it they were kind of daring him to shoot, right. 0:09:43.099 --> 0:09:45.539 They really were. I mean the one toward the end, 0:09:45.619 --> 0:09:48.259 like at a certain point, you know they're not dumb, 0:09:48.259 --> 0:09:51.939 They're they're gonna changed their coverage. Like, but Caleb Martin 0:09:52.019 --> 0:09:55.499 must have gotten knocked down like he was literally it 0:09:55.619 --> 0:09:58.739 was like one of those exercises at the gym. He 0:09:58.859 --> 0:10:01.339 was on all fours trying to crawl out torn By 0:10:01.339 --> 0:10:04.859 that time, KYLEB. Martin was in his motion and getting 0:10:04.899 --> 0:10:07.419 an open three. But the rest of the time, right, 0:10:07.539 --> 0:10:09.779 they were playing up, And that's what happens when you 0:10:09.819 --> 0:10:13.139 double embiid, Like somebody's going to be open, even if 0:10:13.139 --> 0:10:16.099 it's not right next to the player that's got the ball, 0:10:16.219 --> 0:10:19.059 like sometimes it's a pass or so away. But they 0:10:19.059 --> 0:10:22.099 were definitely like if they were leaving one man. It 0:10:22.219 --> 0:10:25.179 was him, and it cost him. So great night for 0:10:25.259 --> 0:10:28.059 Martin and great to see overall that he's feeling that 0:10:28.179 --> 0:10:30.699 much better because look at the results. This is the 0:10:30.699 --> 0:10:33.219 player that the Sixers you know, were looking to get 0:10:33.219 --> 0:10:34.859 when they picked him up in the offseason. 0:10:35.139 --> 0:10:37.659 Twenty three points for Caleb Martin in the one eighteen 0:10:37.659 --> 0:10:40.939 to one fourteen win for the Sixers over the defending 0:10:41.059 --> 0:10:44.379 champion Celtics on the road. Matt Murphy with Tom McGuinness 0:10:44.419 --> 0:10:47.059 here on our seventy six Ers postgame show, which is 0:10:47.099 --> 0:10:50.819 presented by Parks Casino. Embiid had twenty seven points and 0:10:50.939 --> 0:10:54.779 nine rebounds and nine rebounds in thirty one minutes. It 0:10:54.819 --> 0:10:57.499 was Tyrese Maxi who led all scorers with thirty three 0:10:57.539 --> 0:10:59.659 points and he had twelve assists. 0:10:59.739 --> 0:11:00.099 Tom. 0:11:00.339 --> 0:11:02.659 He's the first Sixer ever on Christmas Day to have 0:11:02.739 --> 0:11:05.819 thirty plus points and ten plus assists in a game. 0:11:05.859 --> 0:11:09.659 The Sixers are now twenty and fifteen on Christmas as 0:11:09.659 --> 0:11:13.259 a franchise. Maxie's game, what did you see when Embiid 0:11:13.339 --> 0:11:15.339 is out there? You know he got tossed from the 0:11:15.419 --> 0:11:18.019 last game. When Embiid's out there, how much does that 0:11:18.099 --> 0:11:20.419 help Maxi? What did you see from that double double? 0:11:21.059 --> 0:11:24.979 Well, that part right there, we've seen some of Tyree's 0:11:25.019 --> 0:11:29.219 best games have been without Joelle, and so on the 0:11:29.219 --> 0:11:31.019 one hand, you're like, well, right, he knows he has 0:11:31.059 --> 0:11:32.939 to pick up the scoring, but there must be something 0:11:32.979 --> 0:11:35.339 to the spacing and the fact that he's able to, 0:11:35.779 --> 0:11:39.099 you know, to turn the corner and and be you know, 0:11:39.259 --> 0:11:42.019 is not in the middle with you know, his defender. 0:11:42.539 --> 0:11:45.899 But again it's his speed, is its ability to get 0:11:45.899 --> 0:11:49.659 by the initial defender and then the other bigs are 0:11:49.699 --> 0:11:52.459 lifted out, so there's nobody protecting the rim and he's 0:11:52.539 --> 0:11:57.859 just become an unbelievable finisher. And that's that's what coach 0:11:57.979 --> 0:12:00.739 was talking about about, you know, turning on the jets 0:12:00.739 --> 0:12:04.219 in other words, racking up the speed. Probably the fastest 0:12:04.219 --> 0:12:07.299 player off the dribble, certainly one of in the NBA, 0:12:07.499 --> 0:12:11.419 Tyrese Maxi, and able to get those underhand scoops. He 0:12:11.499 --> 0:12:13.699 made a rolling hook shot. I mean, he is. His 0:12:13.819 --> 0:12:18.219 repertoire is expanding as he goes along, and you know, 0:12:18.379 --> 0:12:22.179 kind of by by force or because they're they're guarding 0:12:22.299 --> 0:12:25.459 him and throwing so much at him. Right, you have 0:12:25.539 --> 0:12:27.659 to be more creative and go different when they're not 0:12:27.699 --> 0:12:30.299 letting him always get to the basket. But then at 0:12:30.299 --> 0:12:32.499 the same time, as you know, he's got that ability 0:12:32.539 --> 0:12:35.899 to back up and hit the deep balls. And then 0:12:35.939 --> 0:12:38.819 that's what coach was talking about with Joel. Two guys 0:12:38.819 --> 0:12:41.619 that can step out and make threes, but two guys 0:12:41.619 --> 0:12:44.619 that also can get to the basket. So really great 0:12:44.659 --> 0:12:48.099 performance to dishing, you know, like he's you know, when 0:12:48.139 --> 0:12:50.499 he does get double, he's thrown it, thrown it to 0:12:50.539 --> 0:12:54.339 other players to twelve assists. Great overall game for Maxie. 0:12:54.459 --> 0:12:57.139 Like I said, you just you get the sense he's 0:12:57.259 --> 0:13:00.179 becoming a star, and part of that is delivering every 0:13:00.219 --> 0:13:03.219 single night. That's a big load. Like Nick Nurse has said, 0:13:03.219 --> 0:13:06.659 these great players are expected to get twenty or more 0:13:06.699 --> 0:13:09.379 points every game. That's a burden that's not not a 0:13:09.379 --> 0:13:12.299 lot of guys can carry. And Maxi is beginning to 0:13:12.339 --> 0:13:14.579 prove that he can do it. And he's like you said, 0:13:14.579 --> 0:13:17.379 he's getting off the good starts with now four the 0:13:17.499 --> 0:13:20.299 last five games, twelve more points in the opening quarter. 0:13:20.939 --> 0:13:22.499 That'll set you on a good course. 0:13:22.939 --> 0:13:25.659 And he finishes strong because that last check. He leads 0:13:25.699 --> 0:13:27.939 the NBA in clutch scoring, which is a five point 0:13:28.019 --> 0:13:31.499 game or less in the last five minutes. Tyrese Maxey 0:13:31.579 --> 0:13:35.299 with thirty three points and twelve assists. Tom This was Boston, 0:13:35.339 --> 0:13:37.979 the defending champs on their home court, where they had 0:13:38.099 --> 0:13:41.419 a twenty game winning streak at home last season to 0:13:41.459 --> 0:13:45.539 start the season. They made twenty threes tonight where they 0:13:45.579 --> 0:13:48.699 had been ten to zero in those situations, So they 0:13:48.779 --> 0:13:52.139 kind kind of played their game and the Sixers still 0:13:52.299 --> 0:13:54.939 get the win by four. I know the five game 0:13:55.019 --> 0:13:56.859 road trip for the Sixers is coming up, but not 0:13:56.939 --> 0:13:59.699 until Saturday. So just a final thought on this game. 0:13:59.739 --> 0:14:03.419 What impressed you most about what is truly a statement victory? 0:14:03.779 --> 0:14:07.259 Yeah, like just because we sit pretty much in the crowd. 0:14:07.339 --> 0:14:10.659 It's not an angle, it's an unusual locale. And then 0:14:10.859 --> 0:14:13.139 you know, just having been here so many times, this 0:14:13.299 --> 0:14:15.779 is give or take my eightieth trip to Boston with 0:14:15.899 --> 0:14:18.219 the Sixers, Like it's somewhere in there when you throw 0:14:18.259 --> 0:14:22.619 in postseason and preseason, it's not fifty I know that. 0:14:22.699 --> 0:14:24.579 So my point is, and they've all been here. I 0:14:24.659 --> 0:14:27.539 was never back in the Old Garden, at least in 0:14:27.619 --> 0:14:31.019 this role, And so the fans expect to win, like 0:14:31.499 --> 0:14:34.379 when they were coming back, they expect to win and 0:14:34.419 --> 0:14:38.859 they there is a huge home court advantage with their crowd. 0:14:39.059 --> 0:14:41.859 It's just there as there's an edge here and you 0:14:41.979 --> 0:14:44.419 feel it and I know the players feel it. It's 0:14:44.539 --> 0:14:48.739 it's palpable. So that right there is awesome. And that's 0:14:48.779 --> 0:14:51.419 why I kind of was getting that with Yabu Sali, 0:14:51.499 --> 0:14:53.459 and that is as a team, you have to know 0:14:53.499 --> 0:14:57.059 it's coming, you know, you just there's no way that 0:14:57.299 --> 0:15:00.019 you know you're going to cruise to a victory here. 0:15:00.499 --> 0:15:04.299 And so that to me, that's always, you know, really 0:15:04.419 --> 0:15:08.339 reinforcing for a team, like for the Sixers to know 0:15:08.459 --> 0:15:12.019 they could withstand the challenge and come back and and 0:15:12.139 --> 0:15:15.459 still win right Like it's it wasn't wired to wire. 0:15:15.539 --> 0:15:18.859 They stood a big run in the fourth, they stood 0:15:18.979 --> 0:15:22.139 a run you know, early in the in the second quarter, 0:15:22.899 --> 0:15:26.699 so really really impressive, and you know they're building, right, 0:15:26.739 --> 0:15:30.539 they're building together. Like it's still like six or seven 0:15:30.579 --> 0:15:33.699 times period in which Paul has played with Tyrese and 0:15:33.779 --> 0:15:37.219 Joel and you know, now you get Caleb Martin into 0:15:37.219 --> 0:15:39.819 the mix, like and then you know you got the 0:15:39.939 --> 0:15:42.819 veterans with Jackson and hopefully Drum won't be out too long. 0:15:43.419 --> 0:15:45.939 Same for Eric Gordon who's proven that he can be, 0:15:46.139 --> 0:15:48.539 you know, everything that the Sixers expected him to be 0:15:48.579 --> 0:15:52.659 when they here, although you know, just in flashes. But 0:15:52.819 --> 0:15:55.139 that's the other thing. You got to get healthy. And 0:15:55.619 --> 0:15:58.059 you know, the Sixers Nick Nurse knows one way to 0:15:58.139 --> 0:16:01.739 keep battling, to keep working, keep practicing, keep putting in 0:16:01.819 --> 0:16:05.419 the time and great game plans. And tonight they deliverately 0:16:06.019 --> 0:16:08.779 sweet win for the victor here in Boston, for sure. 0:16:09.139 --> 0:16:11.699 Sixers have won eight of eleven. The Celtics have now 0:16:11.779 --> 0:16:16.859 dropped three of four. Tom McGinnis in his thirtieth season, 0:16:16.899 --> 0:16:18.379 thank you, sir, and Merry Christmas. 0:16:18.459 --> 0:16:19.459 All right, Murph, thank you. 0:16:20.139 --> 0:16:24.259 One eighteen one fourteen final score the NBA on Christmas Day, 0:16:24.299 --> 0:16:27.099 and the Sixers win the third of the five games 0:16:27.139 --> 0:16:30.379 on the slate in Boston against the Celtics to get 0:16:30.419 --> 0:16:33.139 to ten. We'll make it eleven and seventeen on the 0:16:33.179 --> 0:16:37.339 season while Boston they're eleven and five at home. Now 0:16:37.579 --> 0:16:40.379 it's not quite as dominant as they started last season. 0:16:40.419 --> 0:16:43.579 To stay, to say the least, and twenty two and 0:16:43.699 --> 0:16:48.979 eight overall. The Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference stay. 0:16:49.379 --> 0:16:51.699 We'll have a look at the standings towards the end 0:16:51.779 --> 0:16:53.859 of the show tonight, but plenty more to come. Highlight 0:16:53.899 --> 0:16:56.019 a break including all of the audio heights, the key 0:16:56.139 --> 0:17:00.219 plays with Tom mcguinness's calls still to come, a closer 0:17:00.219 --> 0:17:02.939 look at the box score, and a couple of stats 0:17:02.979 --> 0:17:05.819 of the game. CO Stats of the game if you will, 0:17:06.139 --> 0:17:08.939 taking a deeper look at Sixers history and deeper look 0:17:08.939 --> 0:17:12.459 at Sixers history in Christmas games. But a one to 0:17:12.499 --> 0:17:16.979 eighteen one fourteen Sixers win an impressive win on the 0:17:17.099 --> 0:17:21.939 road against the Boston Celtics. We'll have plenty more. Devin 0:17:22.899 --> 0:17:25.979 Caleb Martin a season high twenty three and a career 0:17:26.099 --> 0:17:29.699 high seven threes on nine attempts, Paul George with twelve 0:17:29.939 --> 0:17:33.899 gershon Yabusele off the bench with twelve. The Sixers counter 0:17:34.019 --> 0:17:37.019 Boston's twenty threes with seventeen of their own, and they 0:17:37.019 --> 0:17:40.179 were a perfect nineteen for nineteen at the free throw line. 0:17:40.619 --> 0:17:44.819 We'll have stats, highlights, and standings when we continue on 0:17:44.939 --> 0:17:48.339 next with our seventy six Ers Parks Casino Postgame Show. 0:17:49.019 --> 0:17:52.699 The Park's Casino postgame show after a big seventy six 0:17:52.819 --> 0:17:57.059 Ers win, part of the NBA on Christmas Day, always 0:17:57.059 --> 0:18:01.939 a staple of the NBA schedule, the Sixers fortunate enough 0:18:01.939 --> 0:18:04.499 to be part of it, and they go to Boston 0:18:04.779 --> 0:18:10.139 and beat the defending champs one eighteen one fourteen behind 0:18:10.299 --> 0:18:14.539 thirty three points and twelve assists from Tyrese Maxi and 0:18:14.619 --> 0:18:18.219 Beat and Caleb Martin also with twenty plus points. Tatum 0:18:18.299 --> 0:18:22.739 led Boston with thirty two points and fifteen rebounds, but 0:18:22.739 --> 0:18:26.139 it's the Sixers by four in what is the first 0:18:26.179 --> 0:18:29.819 of the four meetings between the two rivals this season. 0:18:29.899 --> 0:18:33.219 He had to wait till December twenty fifth to see 0:18:33.259 --> 0:18:36.339 these teams square off for the first time this season, 0:18:36.939 --> 0:18:40.859 and it's a one to zero series lead. Now for Philadelphia, 0:18:41.339 --> 0:18:45.419 who has won eight of eleven, they are, as Nick 0:18:45.459 --> 0:18:48.059 Nurse would say, three to zero in games that they're 0:18:48.099 --> 0:18:50.819 big three of Paul George, Joel and Beat and Tyree 0:18:50.859 --> 0:18:54.859 Maxey have started and finished. They've played about twice as 0:18:54.899 --> 0:18:58.099 many with them that they've started, but because of injuries 0:18:58.099 --> 0:19:01.979 and ejections, it's only the third game that they've completed 0:19:02.459 --> 0:19:05.179 as a trio, and they're three to zero in those situations, 0:19:05.219 --> 0:19:09.339 including this win over the Celtics. Matt Murphy here with you, 0:19:09.819 --> 0:19:13.299 good time to mention that It's also a three for 0:19:13.459 --> 0:19:16.699 one voting day for the NBA All Star Game in 0:19:16.739 --> 0:19:20.899 the San Francisco Bay Area this February twenty twenty five. 0:19:21.699 --> 0:19:24.299 Sixers dot Com Slash all Star has all your voting 0:19:24.379 --> 0:19:27.219 resources to send your favorite Sixers to the All Star Game. 0:19:27.259 --> 0:19:30.739 You can also vote directly through the NBA app and 0:19:30.819 --> 0:19:35.459 the website vote dot NBA dot com, but your vote 0:19:35.459 --> 0:19:40.019 counts for three a triple voting day for the NBA 0:19:40.179 --> 0:19:43.699 All Star Game, and one of our stats of the 0:19:43.699 --> 0:19:46.179 game has to do with a deserving All Star candidate, 0:19:46.219 --> 0:19:49.739 a guy that made his All Star Day view last 0:19:49.859 --> 0:19:53.979 NBA season, Tyrese Maxi. One of our stats of the 0:19:54.019 --> 0:19:56.019 game is that he just became the first seventy six 0:19:56.099 --> 0:19:58.819 er ever with at least thirty points in ten assists 0:19:59.419 --> 0:20:05.059 on Christmas. Those final numbers thirty three and twelve. Our 0:20:05.099 --> 0:20:08.659 other one is that this is the first Sixers Christmas 0:20:08.659 --> 0:20:12.019 game with three twenty point scorers. The ones outlined Caleb Martin, 0:20:12.099 --> 0:20:16.379 Joel Embid and Tyrese Maxey since nineteen eighty eight. These 0:20:16.419 --> 0:20:21.859 stats courtesy of the ESPN telecast that trio in eighty 0:20:21.899 --> 0:20:25.019 eight Charles Barkley, Mike Jaminski and Gerald Henderson Senior in 0:20:25.059 --> 0:20:28.459 a fifteen point win over the Washington Bullets at the Spectrum. 0:20:28.579 --> 0:20:32.179 Sixers entered today with a nineteen and fifteen Christmas Day record, 0:20:32.419 --> 0:20:36.939 so this is their twentieth win on the holiday. It's 0:20:36.979 --> 0:20:41.739 by four points over the Boston Celtics. And we'll hear 0:20:42.419 --> 0:20:47.659 how it sounded right now, as called by Tom McGuinness. 0:20:47.699 --> 0:20:54.179 The Sixers Celtics in Boston, starting lineup of Tyrese Maxi, 0:20:54.299 --> 0:20:59.899 Paul George, Kelly oubre Junior, Caleb Martin and Joel Embiid 0:21:00.219 --> 0:21:03.259 in the absence of Jared McCain, kJ Martin, Andre Drummond 0:21:03.259 --> 0:21:07.659 and Eric Gordon. Drew Holliday was out for Boston with 0:21:07.699 --> 0:21:12.579 a shoulder injury. Sixers in the white uniform, Celtics in 0:21:12.659 --> 0:21:17.619 green with some red accessories for the holiday. And in 0:21:17.659 --> 0:21:21.179 the first quarter we skip ahead towards the end. This 0:21:21.299 --> 0:21:25.219 was an up tempo first quarter. Threes were flying, including 0:21:25.259 --> 0:21:28.339 from the big men of the Boston Celtics. Boston takes 0:21:28.379 --> 0:21:30.939 fifty a game, as we said a number of times, 0:21:31.099 --> 0:21:35.379 Sixers only thirty five a game on average, but Al 0:21:35.379 --> 0:21:40.019 Horford took four and made three threes in the first Cup. 0:21:40.059 --> 0:21:42.579 Here's Horford, but it all one and good again. I 0:21:42.579 --> 0:21:43.859 don't know that Horford. 0:21:43.459 --> 0:21:46.579 Has gone inside. He certainly has a shot. 0:21:46.259 --> 0:21:48.419 Inside, but I mean like, I don't think he's gone 0:21:48.459 --> 0:21:51.859 inside the paint at all. He made his third three 0:21:52.019 --> 0:21:53.499 out Arford with nine. 0:21:54.219 --> 0:21:56.459 He tacked on two more in the game, five for 0:21:56.579 --> 0:22:00.059 ten in thirty three minutes as a starter, seventeen points 0:22:00.099 --> 0:22:03.419 for the former sixer in the game, Tyrese Maxie had 0:22:03.459 --> 0:22:07.259 twelve in the first quarter alone, including the final bucket 0:22:07.659 --> 0:22:11.379 of the first spinning right of the lane on Peyton Pritchard. 0:22:11.379 --> 0:22:13.979 Twenty eight to twenty five. Maxie with a dribble eight 0:22:14.019 --> 0:22:16.339 seconds to go. The first Pritchard with a d god 0:22:16.339 --> 0:22:19.739 of the upper conics, Maxi drives it, spins in the lane, 0:22:19.979 --> 0:22:22.379 running hook shot counted off the windowing good. 0:22:22.659 --> 0:22:25.579 With two seconds, here comes Presser. This is his deal. 0:22:25.779 --> 0:22:30.139 He almost made it. The fans expecting another half court miracle. 0:22:29.739 --> 0:22:30.139 But no. 0:22:31.579 --> 0:22:35.179 Pritchard has a knack for end of quarter buzzer beating baskets, 0:22:35.219 --> 0:22:38.459 but it was Maxie who got the last laugh. Four 0:22:38.539 --> 0:22:41.459 of five recent games, four of his last five, Maxi 0:22:41.539 --> 0:22:45.459 has scored twelve plus points. Three of those twelve on 0:22:45.579 --> 0:22:49.459 the number with multiple threes. He did so again in 0:22:49.499 --> 0:22:53.019 this thirty twenty five first quarter, favoring the Sixers on 0:22:53.059 --> 0:22:55.539 the road, and he rolled that right into the second quarter, 0:22:56.059 --> 0:22:58.739 going back to that left hand like Monday night with 0:22:58.859 --> 0:22:59.299 the dunk. 0:22:59.739 --> 0:23:02.979 Here's Maxie down the label the left pat slam. He 0:23:03.099 --> 0:23:06.539 throws it down rimmed into the San Antonio game with 0:23:06.619 --> 0:23:10.619 that left hand chosen and he's got fourteen car in 0:23:10.739 --> 0:23:12.179 JM drive of the game. 0:23:12.299 --> 0:23:17.019 What a burst by Maxi. Sixers were building the lead. 0:23:17.059 --> 0:23:18.939 It was thirty two to twenty five. He had the 0:23:19.059 --> 0:23:22.299 last of the basket of the first the first basket 0:23:22.379 --> 0:23:26.299 of the second quarter, Tyrese Maxi. They built the lead 0:23:26.419 --> 0:23:30.139