Beal has 60, but Wizards fall to 76ers

Joel Embiid scored 38 points and the NBA-leading Philadelphia 76ers overcame a Washington record-tying 60-point performance by Bradley Beal in a 141-136 win over the Wizards on Wednesday night.

The Sixers are an NBA best 7-1 in coach Doc Rivers’ first season in Philadelphia.

“They pay me to take over the game, and they pay me to dominate,” Embiid said.

Embiid did just that in the fourth, scoring 11 points to just three for Beal.

Beal was stuffed on a layup and missed a 3-pointer inside the final minute, nearly coming up short of joining Golden State’s Stephen Curry as 60-point scorers this season. Curry scored a careerhigh 62 points on Sunday night.

Beal, who once scored 53 and 55 points in consecutive games, sank a free throw with 4.4 seconds left to hit the mark. He went 20 of 25 from the floor, made 7 of 10 3-points and went 13 of 15 from the line to match former Wizard Gilbert Arenas for the franchise single-game mark.

Pacers 114, Rockets 107 — Malcolm Brogdon scored a career-high 35 points and made the go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:22 to go, leading the Indiana Pacers past the Houston Rockets.

Justin Holiday added a season-high 20 points for Indiana, winner of two straight.

John Wall had a seasonhigh 28 points, but James Harden had just 15.

Magic 105, Cavaliers 94 — Former top overall draft pick Markelle Fultz suffered a season-ending tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the first quarter of the Orlando Magic’s win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Terrence Ross scored 20 points and hit five 3-pointers to lead the Magic, who beat the Cavaliers for a second time in three nights.

Hornets 102, Hawks 94 — Gordon Hayward scored a career-high 44 points and the Charlotte Hornets recovered after trailing for the first time in the fourth quarter and beat the Atlanta Hawks.

The Hornets led by double figures most of the game before Atlanta claimed its first lead, at 8685, on John Collins’ threepoint play with 5:22 remaining.

Hayward answered with a jumper and his own three-point play and the Hornets never trailed again.

Knicks 112, Jazz 100— Austin Rivers scored 23 points, including 14 straight for the Knicks down the stretch, and Julius Randle had 30 points, 16 rebounds and seven assists as New York won its third straight by beating the Utah Jazz.

The Knicks trailed by 18 in the first half but outplayed the Jazz in the second and won for the fifth time in six games. Rivers made four 3-pointers in the final 4:17.

Bucks 130, Pistons 115 — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 25 points and Khris Middleton added 23 as the Milwaukee Bucks rolled past the Detroit Pistons 130-115 on Wednesday night for their third straight victory.

This marked the second time in three nights that the Bucks and Pistons have faced off in Milwaukee.

The Bucks (5-3) beat the Pistons 125-115 on Monday and have now won their last nine regular-season meetings with Detroit.