Nikola had a game-high 25 points for the Nuggets, including Denver’s first ten points of the night. Denver had won four of its last five home games but a bad start led to another defeat. He has scored in double figures in 12 of his last 14 games.

The Nuggets had a chance to tie it during a frantic ending. After Embiid hit two free throws to put the Sixers up four, Jokic was fouled on a 3-point attempt.

Jokic made the first two free throws and intentionally missed the third. Denver’s Gary Harris grabbed the rebound but missed a short bank shot, and Kenneth Faried’s tip-in try was off as time expired.

„Jokic did a great job missing, I got a shot up and we had a chance for a tip-in, but it just didn’t go our way,“ Harris said.

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