A fourth-quarter comeback wasn’t enough to overcome a lackluster start in the Sixers’ 101-96 loss to the shorthanded Heat at the Wells Fargo Center Wednesday night.
The Sixers welcomed back Joel Embiid and Seth Curry to the lineup, but were down Georges Niang (health and safety protocols) and Furkan Korkmaz (non-COVID illness). They took on a Heat team without Jimmy Butler or Bam Adebayo Wednesday.
For the first two and a half quarters of the game, it looked like the hospital Heat squad was going to handle the Sixers easily. A fourth-quarter comeback ended with a late Gabe Vincent three, of course.