It was a little close for comfort, but Sixers close road trip with narrow win vs. Bulls

Sometimes in an afternoon road game you got to be happy just getting out of there with a win. The Sixers narrowly defeated the Chicago Bulls 127-121 Sunday afternoon.

Jaylen Brown went for a team-high 29 points and seven rebounds on 11-of-22 shooting. Tyrese Maxey zoomed his way to 27 points on 9-of-16 shooting with seven assists.

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Joel Embiid labored his way to a better outing, finishing with 18 points shooting 7-of-19 from the floor along with 10 rebounds, eight of them coming on the offensive end. LeBron James bounced back in a big way, putting up 22 points, a Sixers high, going 8-of-16 from the floor along with five rebounds and five assists. Josh Giddey and Matas Buzelis led the Bulls with 19 apiece.

The Sixers were again without Adem Bona and Dominick Barlow. Norm Powell was out for Chicago, but Nic Claxton made his first appearance for the Bulls in this one.

Here are some thoughts at the buzzer.

First Quarter

The Sixers opened the game trying to get Embiid going from the field, but he missed a three and a post-up on their first two possessions. Chicago didn’t meet any resistance, starting the game 10-of-15 from the field. Embiid did grab an offensive rebound falling down and dove out of bounds to save a loose ball — the Sixers scored second-chance points on both of those opportunities. His first field goal was a putback of his own blocked shot.

Edgecombe carried over his strong performance from the night before. He forced a steal and a tough shot on back-to-back possessions for their first quality stops on the night and helped kickstart a 7-0 Sixers run. His second corner three of the night added to that run on the other end of the floor.

Nick Nurse subbed out LeBron and Brown first rather than the usual Maxey and Brown, at least momentarily. Embiid got a much more comfortable post-up in a more familiar lineup and once again put back his own miss before being subbed out at the next dead ball. Brown checked into the game about 30 seconds later.

It took a couple of minutes to get some results, but Jabari Walker did a lot good things in the 2:57 he played to close the quarter. He found a cutting…

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