Joel Embiid, Cody Zeller and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
Matt Slocum
Anthony Gilbert | For NJ Advance Media
The Sixers kept their perfect record at home Friday, after beating the Hornets in overtime 133-132. Joel Embiid took the team to the fourth quarter, making a few free throws and a pointer to force the overtime.
Philadelphia had taken a 21-point lead before a poor defense and an offensive eruption by Kemba Walker, the Hornets star, undermined the Sixers.
Embiid turned out to be too much of a winner since he finished the match with 42 points, 18 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 blocks and, more importantly, he achieved a career record with 19 free throws.
Joel Embiid
Matt Slocum
Joel Embiid continues to make history
Embiid leads the league with 12 double-doubles of the season. His 12 doubles doubles are the maximum that a player has had in the first 13 games of a season since the Moses Malone Hall of Fame. also had 12 doubles doubles in 1983-84 (Basketball-Reference).
Friday was Embiid's second performance with 40 points and the third of his career. With two games scoring 40 goals or more this season, Embiid is tied with the most players in the league with Damian Lillard of Portland. The last player in Philadelphia to have more than 40 points in a season was Hall of Fame goaltender Allen Iverson, who had played 15 games with more than 40 points in 2005-06 (Basketball-Reference).
