{"id":25765,"date":"2023-04-10T04:45:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/76ers-dynamic-duo-accomplishes-a-rare-feat\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T04:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T04:45:23","slug":"76ers-dynamic-duo-accomplishes-a-rare-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/76ers-dynamic-duo-accomplishes-a-rare-feat\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers&#8217; dynamic duo accomplishes a rare feat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ac_72814152\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme first_text_block\">\n<p> After an impressive 2022-23 regular season campaign, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia_76ers\/66\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>&#8216; dynamic duo of Joel Embiid and James Harden accomplished a remarkable feat together.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Embiid and Harden became only the fifth pair of teammates to lead the NBA in points-per-game and assists-per-game, and the first since George Gervin and Johnny Moore of the San Antonio Spurs in 1981-82.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ac_72814154\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme \">\n<p>Embiid outlasted Dallas Mavericks&#8217; Luka Doncic for the scoring title, averaging 33.1 points per game this season. Meanwhile, Harden finished ahead of Atlanta Hawks&#8217; Trae Young for the assists lead, posting 10.7 helpers a game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the postseason, Embiid and Harden helped the Sixers solidify one of the top spots in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers&#8217; big man had an outstanding season, posting a career-high in points while averaging 10.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.7 blocks a game over 66 contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, Harden dove into the facilitator role, averaging his highest assist rate since the 2020-21 season, adding 21 points and 6.1 rebounds over 58 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia finished the year 54-28, good enough for the third seed in the East. The Sixers finished only three games back of the Boston Celtics (57-25) for second place and four games behind the Milwaukee Bucks (58-24), who posted the NBA&#8217;s best record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the regular season out of the way, the Sixers look ahead to their first-round matchup against the six-seeded Brooklyn Nets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers swept the Nets in the season series, 4-0, knocking them off for the fourth time on Sunday, 134-105.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/76ers_dynamic_duo_accomplishes_a_rare_feat\/s1_13132_38679788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an impressive 2022-23 regular season campaign, the Philadelphia 76ers&#8216; dynamic duo of Joel Embiid and James Harden accomplished a remarkable feat together.\u00a0 Embiid and Harden became only the fifth pair of teammates to lead the NBA in points-per-game and assists-per-game, and the first since George Gervin and Johnny Moore of the San Antonio Spurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}