Joel Embiid powers through Bell's palsy for 50 as Sixers smack Knicks in the head. Literally.

Despite his left eye, dry and blurry from a bout with Bell's palsy, his left knee sore from surgery two months ago, it was his toughness, not his touch, that turned what could have been a 3-0 deficit into a 2-1 momentum swing. After Game 2, Embiid vowed the Sixers would win the series, even though, historically, NBA teams in a 2-0 hole in seven-game series have come back just 7% of the time. “His voice, and his presence tonight, was the biggest thing,” said Tyrese Maxey. When you last you saw these Sixers, they were whining about being bullied by an undermanned, under-talented Knicks club whose best player was stinking up Manhattan like a garbage strike.