And just as it was in February 15th, a matchup of the conference leaders.

Utah won that first game.

So there you see the two big men involved in here at least talent wise.

Joel Embiid, Donovan Mitchell.

48 minutes to the All Star break, Boys, give it all you've got.

Third quarter Jazz are up.

Three.

Mitchell, Dr.

Who goes in for this?

He looks like he's going to try to put him be on a poster, cuffs it and tries to slam.

It.

Doesn't get that, but does get to in the foul, 89 84 Headed to the Forge as 25 0 when leading after the third quarter.

That seems to bode well and beat finishes off that one with a slam two point game.

Still and beat top of the key.

Guess what?

Phillies up one.

Same numbers.

Here comes Mitchell.

Behind the arc.

They give you three From there, he had 33 in the game two point lead for Utah Jazz Quintet Mike Conley boy in Bogdanovich for three and the Jazz back up 32 minutes to go.

It's now a five point margin and be drives on.

Go bear offensive foul.

No call.

Nothing.

They're all we got is two points.

Ram Bead puts his shoulder down.

Pushes him No whistle.

Nothing happening.

We're all good.

Sixers down three.

Mitchell.

I mean, where's somebody?

Go ahead and get that follow up by Bogdanovich.

Clear path to the basket and we tried.

Couldn't get it and beat.

Now 12 seconds to go.

We're down to 10 steps out.

Fires that well guarded, but the big man at 71 drops the three ties at 1 18, five seconds left.

We go the other way off the inbound Conley.

Gotta look at it and rattles around.

No, doesn't get the members bounce on the road.

We look at them.

Be one more time.

I mean, that's just a big dude with a sweet shot from out there.

1 18 a piece and be 39 through regulation in overtime.

Tobias Harris, former Bucks man, comes through here.

He finishes, gets it up, and in two point lead, Sixers basically had their way with them.

In the extra five minutes.

Harris again baseline over Rice O'Neill.

He had 22.

Admitted to play Harris.

Ms Ben Simmons put back no.

Alright and beat.

And he's fouled.

Somebody learned how to play this game.

Jazz not happy with that and beat points at Mitchell and beats dunk.

Doesn't clear the rim fouls called on, go bare and then be points at Mitchell and signals a technical foul.

And lo and behold, Mitchell got teed up.

I didn't know you could ask for these things.

And then there you go.

I guess when you're all stars, this happens.

Mitchell.

Then 40 seconds to go shoot the corner.

Three.

No.

Simmons slides his foot into Mitchell's landing area, so he wasn't happy about that.

We gotta scrub on the ground, Mitchell.

He's gonna keep barking all the way to get a second technical foul.

So then you get dismissed from the game.

Sixers are going to win it in overtime.

1 31 1 23.

As for Mitchell reps, man, it's tough to go out there and see how we fight and compete, and to have a game like that taken from us, and I'm never ever wanted to blame a rash to blame the fish.

I could say we could have done more, but this is getting out of hand.

You know, there have been games like this that we've won.

They've been games like this that we've we've lost.

But this whole refereeing stuff and the way we're nice, we don't complain.

We don't like, we don't get frustrated, you know, we fight through things and the fact that we just continually get get screwed in a way by this, you know, like we won this game in my personal opinion, you know?

But like I said, I'm gonna give them credit.

They want whatever cool.

But, like this is it's the consistent thing.

And, you know, the question is, can we Can we do it?

Can we sustain it?

Are we for real number one like where the hell we are and it's getting the It's ridiculous, KK that this is This is what's happening.

Feel like that's going to come with a fine, don't you?

A couple of months and there's this Joel and be another monster game, recording his ninth career game with 40 points, 15 rebounds.

That's just the minimum.

He's gone well past that with 19.

He's now the second most games in six years history, passing Charles Barkley.

Chuck, look at that picture.

Embiid only trails Wilt Chamberlain, who, of course, had 30 of those in his time with Philly.

Tim Legler.

It is a levy night here on SportsCenter.

You so you have to bring top tier stuff.

Are you ready?

I'm ready to roll.

Let's do it all right.

In games like this really important big games, it helps to either have the best player or the player who plays the best.

And in Phillies case, they had them both, and it was Joel M.

B.

Yeah, they did.

And look, this is a guy that is getting some talk right now for M V P.

But I was on this a few weeks ago.

I don't think it's close right now.

And if you need a signature game, this was the game, because there's nothing more a basketball player can do to affect the game and help his team get a win.

Did Yoelbi did in this one?

He didn't on both ends of the floor, so he's just so versatile offensively.

Very few guys this big this size of this kind of footwork.

Look at that up fake.

Let's go bare to bite it and it goes to the river.

Look, all these are in the last six minutes of regulation, and then the defensive effort, not just the first one on Mitchell to make a miss, but to hit the ground, go back up and get the block on Rudy Gobert at the rim and then the ensuing possession.

How about a 71 £270 guy just trailing the break and hitting a Big three?

But this is where John he really separates himself from anybody else in the league.

Right now.

He's unguardable in the post, one on one.

He makes quick work of Gobert, a two time defensive player.

Two year there and then one more time.

The defense.

He shows hard on the Mitchell ball screen, so he's had 25 ft but recovers to break up the lob and then one more time.

This is incredible, first of all, awareness to understand.

Down three.

Maybe I don't have time for two possessions here, so he dribbles out the up fake stays on balance, holds his follow through and knocks down the three to tie the game.

They eventually win the game in overtime with some help from Tobias Harris But I thought his 50 point game against Toronto about 10 days ago was the signature moment to thrust him into the conversation.

And it probably did that.

This is the one that for me that separates him right now from everybody else in the league.

I think James Harden's got a case for it.

I think Steph Curry's got a case for it, but you l a beat for me right now.

Head and shoulders above everybody in the league with what he means to this team, and they've got the best record.

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