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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With primary defender P.J. Washington already fouled out, Joel Embiid easily rose up for the jumper over Miles Bridges. The shot fell to give the Sixers a double-digit advantage with less than three minutes to go, helping them overcome a clunky performance on the second night of a back-to-back to top the Hornets, 97-89, Saturday night at the Spectrum Center. It was quite the flip from when the Sixers were last in this building about a month ago, when they handed the lowly Hornets a 53-point drubbing to mark their ugliest defeat in franchise history. Saturday night, the Sixers…

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