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Embiid got the last laugh in the second quarter with a baseline dunk overand pointed at the hapless defender. Embiid was hit with a technical but by then, who cared? Embiid buried a 3 from the top of the arc that made it 41-17 and about blew the roof off the arena. Sixers general manager, who sits in the first row of the press seating, had his eyes locked on the scoreboard for each replay of the big man's 3.
Hollis-Jefferson scored 21 points for the Nets, who head into the off-season after their first playoff series since 2015.
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