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Recap: 76ers 104, Suns 101
76ers 104, Suns 101: Jrue Holiday scored a career-high 33 points as host Philadelphia beat Phoenix and snapped a two-game losing streak.
Holiday also logged his fifth double-double of the season, dishing 13 assists. Evan Turner added 16 points and nine rebounds for the 76ers.
The Suns’ Michael Beasley snapped out of his shooting slump to make 8 of 13 field goals for a team-high 21 points. Five other players also scored in double figures for Phoenix, which was starting a season-long six-game road trip.
There were 15 lead changes before Thaddeus Young sank a hook shot to put Philadelphia ahead for good, 84-83, early in the fourth quarter. The Sixers led by as many seven points in the stanza.
Phoenix pulled within 98-97 in the final minute, but buckets by Jason Richardson and Holiday helped Philadelphia hold off the Suns.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Phoenix PG Goran Dragic tallied 10 points and has scored in double digits in every game this season. … Richardson scored eight points and played 34 minutes despite spraining his ankle one night earlier in Philadelphia’s overtime loss to the Thunder. … Suns F Markieff Morris, a Philadelphia native, had a game-high 10 rebounds.
