Quentin Grimes got 25 points and the Philadelphia 76ers got a huge effort from his reserves in a victory 126-122 over the visiting Utah Jazz on Sunday.
While Grimes received more points than the other four starters combined, Sixer’s bench poured into 78 points, led by Lonnie Walker IV (25), Jared Butler (15) and Adem Bona (14). Bona added 14 returns and Walker had 11.
Kyle Filipowski banded his career high with 25 points, but Utah still lost his 12th road game in a row. Keyonte George also had 25 points for jazz, while Isaiah Collier chipped in 13 points and 10 assists.
Philadelphia played without Joel Embiid, Paul George and Tyrese Maxey, among others. Utah took the court’s key player like Lauri Markkanen, John Collins and Jordan Clarkson.
Utah dragged at 18 to start the fourth quarter and with 22 with 8 1/2 minutes left before making a furious pressure.
George and Brice Sensabaugh made two 3 points each to get the deficit down to 110-100 before Sentabaugh made another to get the jazz within 110-104 with under five minutes left.
The deficit was still six when Filipowski made its first of two 3 points in the last 10 seconds of the game. However, Philadelphia made enough free throw (and survived a key playback) to survive along the route.
Filipowski got 12 points because Utah led 32-27 after a period. Visitors led from as many as 16 points before Sixers scored the last 11 points of the quarter.
Filadelfia’s increase continued into the second quarter, when the hosts opened the period at an 8-2 driving and continued to dominate the period on the way to a lead of 65-58 at the break.
The jazz came within 76-72 early in the third quarter before Sixers put together an 18-6 run that started with a 3-point of Grimes. Butler emptied Back-to-back 3-points later in the surge before Walker’s arrangement made it 94-78.
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