SportyTV | NBA: Maxey scores career-high 54 points in 76ers' OT victory

Tyrese Maxey scored a career-high 54 points and tied the game by hitting two free throws with seven seconds left in the fourth quarter of the Philadelphia 76ers' 123-114 overtime victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night.

Maxey's previous career high was a 52-point performance in a 133-126, double-overtime victory over San Antonio on April 7, 2024. He also had nine assists and played over 46 1/2 minutes.

Maxey, who entered Thursday averaging a league-high 40.3 minutes, had played 39 minutes one night earlier in a 121-112 home loss to the Toronto Raptors.

Milwaukee's Ryan Rollins scored 32 points to match a career high and also had a personal-best 14 assists. The Bucks have lost four of their last five games.

Neither team had its former league MVP available.

Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, the MVP in 2019 and 2020, got hurt Monday at Cleveland and is expected to miss about two weeks. The Bucks labelled it a left groin strain Monday but have since specified that it’s a left adductor strain.

Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, who won the award in 2023, missed a sixth straight game due to an issue with his right knee.

that FIFTY BALL feeling pic.twitter.com/CF8l15tTnM
— Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) November 21, 2025

Spurs win third straight without Wembanyama

De'Aaron Fox scored 26 points, Keldon Johnson had 25 and the San Antonio Spurs won their third straight without Victor Wembanyama, toppling the Atlanta Hawks 135-126.

Nickeil Alexander-Walker had a career-high 38 points on 13-for-17 shooting for Atlanta. Jalen Johnson added 26 for the Hawks, who have lost two straight after winning five in a row.

San Antonio was without Wembanyama (left calf strain), Stephon Castle (strained left hip flexor) and Dylan Harper (strained left calf). Trae Young (right MCL sprain) sat out for Atlanta.

San Antonio (11-4) is off to its best start after 15 games since 2016-17, when it opened 12-3.

With several stars missing, Spurs guard David Jones Garcia put up a stellar performance.

Jones Garcia had 12 points, six assists, five rebounds, three steals and a blocked shot. All were season highs for the rookie from the Dominican Republic on a two-way contract.

SPURS WIN!!! pic.twitter.com/tnBpImZLSF
— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) November 21, 2025

Grizzlies beat reeling Kings to snap skid

Santi Aldama scored 29 points, Jock Landale added 21 and the Memphis Grizzlies built a big first-half lead and sent the Sacramento Kings to their eighth straight loss, 137-96.

Cedric Coward scored 19 points and Zach Edey finished with 16 as Memphis snapped a five-game losing streak. Vince Williams had a career-best 15 assists.

Zach LaVine led the Kings with 26 points on 10-of-17 shooting. Russell Westbrook and Keegan Murray, making his season debut, scored 11 points each. Murray had been out of action since a left thumb injury in the preseason.

The Kings have lost all eight in the skid by double digits. Four of the losses have come by at least 27 points. The 41-point setback Thursday was their largest of the season.

Before the game, the Kings announced that an MRI revealed a partial meniscus tear in the left knee of starting center Domantas Sabonis. The team said he will be re-evaluated in three to four weeks. He suffered the injury in Sunday's loss at San Antonio.