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Sports Illustrated
By Kyle Wood Philadelphia’s MVP candidate helped turn the tides defensively, while everyone not named Jimmy Butler struggled to create much of anything for Miami. View the original article to see embedded media. 76ers MVP finalist Joel Embiid returned to the court on Friday and all of a sudden, this looks like a series. Philadelphia’s big man was absent for the first two games of the series in Miami while dealing with a concussion and an orbital fracture that he suffered in the first round. With their superstar back in the starting lineup, the 76ers trounced the Heat, 99–79, to cut Miami’s ser…