The ball game today between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Brooklyn Nets went down to the wire with the 76ers getting the edge over the Nets with a massive step back three from downtown by Jimmy Butler ending the ball game at 127-125 and shocking NBA fans around the world as Butler has become absolutely clutch this season. The buzzer beater came after the Philadelphia 76ers mounter a massive comeback in the 4th quarter after trailing 102-89 and majority of the ball game as the Nets got off to a very good start resulting in the 76ers outscoring the Brooklyn Nets 38-23 in the final quarter with Jimmy Butler and Joel Embiid taking over. This victory gives Jimmy Butler his second buzzer beater of the season with both threes being nearly in identical areas and has really put himself in the conversation of being on the top-end scale of superstars such as the Lebron's, and Harden's. The win against the Brooklyn Nets gives the Philadelphia 76ers their 14th win of the season and having won 5 out of their last 6 games.

Game Stats:

Jimmy Butler dominated tonight's ball game with 34 points (11-20 FG), 5-6 downtown, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, and 4 steals with the epic buzzer beater to seal the deal giving Butler an outstanding performance to remember. Joel Embiid continues to destroy stat lines dropping 32 points (11-19 FG), 12 rebounds, 4 assists, and 2 blocks putting the big man very high in the MVP conversation so far into the 2018-2019 season. Ben Simmons had another good game scoring 13 points (5-13 FG), 5 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 steals, and 2 blocks demonstrating a very good all round performance but more aggression on the offensive end would help the 76ers a lot.

DiAngelo Russell had a monster game for the Brooklyn Nets dropping 38 points (16-28 FG), 8 rebounds, 8 assists, and 1 block providing a scoring barrage from the beginning of the ball game but was not enough to overcome Butler and the 76ers. Spencer Dinwiddie had a massive performance off the bench with 31 points (11-15 FG), 4-5 from 3, 3 rebounds, and 5 assists.

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The Philadelphia 76ers next match up against the New York Knicks to see if they can continue the impressive basketball the team has been playing and improve their regular season 14-8 record. The Brooklyn Nets next face the Utah Jazz which will be the tough match up for Nets but the young squad has been surprising at times and see if they can improve their 8 win 13 loss regular season record.

Check out Jimmy Butler's insane buzzer beater below ;)

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