The Utah Jazz suffered their second straight loss in basketball’s NBA. Lauri Markkanen scored 15 points and grabbed ten rebounds in Philadelphia.
Utah Jazz’s Finnish star Lauri Markkanen witnessed up close when the Philadelphia 76ers Joel Embiid scored a whopping 59 points in an NBA match.
The Cameroonian broke his scoring record with new faith and capped off his top night with 11 rebounds, eight assists and seven blocks.
Embiid is the first NBA player ever to record more than 50 points, ten rebounds, five assists and five blocks in a single game.
Philadelphia ran away to victory on its home floor in the last quarter of an even match, during which Embiid scored 26 of his team’s 27 points. The match against Utah ended for Philadelphia with the numbers 105-98.
Embiid scored as many as 101 points in two games over the weekend.
Markkanen scored 15 points and grabbed ten rebounds in the match. The double-double, i.e. double-digit readings in two different statistical categories, is the sixth of the season for the 25-year-old Finn.
Markkanen, who played 34 minutes, succeeded in two of his five three-point attempts. Markkanen’s two-point shots sank with 46 percent accuracy.
Out of four free throws, Markkanen scored only one. He missed two free throws in the final moments of the game shortly after a high-spirited Embiid had called him in the mouth.
– Joel Embiid said that he urged Lauri Markkas to miss the free throws so that the match does not go to overtime, because Embiid had to get home and put his son Arthur to bed. Boy has a strict bedtime, NBC reporter John Clark tweeted with smileys.
The second straight loss dropped Utah from the top spot in the NBA’s Western Conference to fourth. Utah plays its next game in Salt Lake City early Wednesday morning Finnish time against the New York Knicks.