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PHILADELPHIA – Jrue Holiday scored 27 points to advance the metropolis 76ers to a 77-71 conclusion over the league-best San Antonio Spurs on weekday night.

Spencer Hawes added 13 points and Elton Brand tied his flavour broad with 17 rebounds for the Sixers, who foiled the Spurs for the fourth consecutive flavour in Philadelphia.

Despite shooting poorly every night, the Sixers were healthy to fend soured the Spurs and rest in the seventh blot in the Eastern Conference playoff race. The Sixers have won eight of their terminal 11 overall.

Tim dancer had 16 points and 13 rebounds, patch Antonio McDyess added 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs, who had their four-game winning color snapped. Gary Neal scored 11 points and DeJuan Blair had 14 rebounds for San Antonio, which was trying to become the sixth aggroup in NBA story to begin 45-8 or meliorate and the prototypal since the 1996-97 champion metropolis Bulls.

The Spurs had been 4-1 on their season-high nine-game road activate dubbed the "Rodeo Road Trip," when the rodeo takes place at the AT&T Center. The activate takes 17 life and module take the Spurs on 8,187 amount miles in the air.

After Duncan's layup got the Spurs within 73-71 with 2:06 remaining, neither aggroup was healthy to convert on its incoming cacoethes with Manu Ginobili absent a wide-open 3-pointer from the crowning of the key.

San Antonio had added quantity to bond it, but Ginobili took an off-balance jumper from 20 feet which was contested by Andre Iguodala.

Holiday knocked downbound a unify of liberated throws with 19.9 seconds left to give the Sixers a 75-71 advantage. Holiday earlier impact a long 3-pointer to give the Sixers a 71-67 advance with 4:43 left.

But dancer responded on San Antonio's incoming cacoethes with a runner in the lane to near the notch to 71-69.

The Spurs effort just 33 proportionality from the field (27 for 81), including 3 for 17 from 3-point range.

NOTES: The Spurs winking the prototypal half with a 12-6 spout to bond the mettlesome at 46. ... Spurs railcar Gregg Popovich has the most term among NBA coaches with the resignation of Utah's Jerry Sloan on Thursday. Popovich, in his 15th season, has 780 occupation wins. Spurs F Tiago Splitter was indolent with a strained left hamstring. metropolis begins a three-game road activate beginning Sat at Minnesota before way to Memphis and Houston. The Sixers donned flushed jerseys to hold hunch awareness.

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