PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Norman Powell scored 32 points while Kel’el Ware had 20 points and 16 rebounds to help the Miami Heat win their fourth in a row with a 127-117 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday.
Jaime Jacquez Jr. scored 22 points, and Bam Adebayo contributed 18 for the Heat.
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Philadelphia 76ers' Paul George, left, battles for the ball with Miami Heat's Simone Fontecchio, front right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Philadelphia 76ers' Tyrese Maxey (0) reacts after the second of his back-to-back 3-point baskets during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Miami Heat's Kel'el Ware, left, goes up to shoot against Philadelphia 76ers' Dom Barlow, center, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Miami Heat's Bam Adebayo, left, looks to shoot against Philadelphia 76ers' Paul George, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Tyrese Maxey had 27 points to pace Philadelphia, which played without former MVP Joel Embiid for the seventh straight game. Embiid (right knee injury management) has missed 10 of 16 contests this season. Maxey, who. entered second in the NBA in scoring at 33.4 points per contest, was coming off a career-high 54 points in Thursday's 123-114 overtime win at Milwaukee.
Andre Drummond added 14 points and 23 rebounds for the 76ers. Rookie VJ Edgecombe (left calf tightness) also was sidelined for Philadelphia.
This was the first of three contests between the clubs.
Miami controlled the contest throughout, but the 76ers got within 105-103 with 8:28 left after Trendon Watford’s layup. The Heat then scored 13 of the next 15 points, capped by Powell’s running layup with 4:40 remaining, to go ahead by 13.
The 76ers honored the 25-year anniversary of the 2001 Eastern Conference champions by wearing replica black jerseys from that era. Allen Iverson, who was named MVP that season, was in attendance. Theo Ratliff rang the ceremonial Liberty Bell prior to the contest. Ratliff helped the 76ers to a 41-14 record before a midseason trade sent him to Atlanta for Dikembe Mutombo.
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Philadelphia 76ers' Paul George, left, battles for the ball with Miami Heat's Simone Fontecchio, front right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Philadelphia 76ers' Tyrese Maxey (0) reacts after the second of his back-to-back 3-point baskets during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Miami Heat's Kel'el Ware, left, goes up to shoot against Philadelphia 76ers' Dom Barlow, center, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Miami Heat's Bam Adebayo, left, looks to shoot against Philadelphia 76ers' Paul George, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Chang Ung, a former North Korean member of the International Olympic Committee who once led sports exchanges with rival South Korea, including joint marches of their athletes at the Olympics, has died, the IOC announced Wednesday. He was 87.
The IOC said on its website that it had learned with “extreme sadness” of Chang’s death on Sunday. It said the Olympic flag will be flown at half-mast for three days at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The IOC statement didn't describe the cause of Chang's death. North Korea’s state media has not reported on his death.
Born in 1938, Chang was originally a basketball player who captained the North Korean national team. After retiring from the sport, he became an athletics administrator, serving as a vice sports minister, a vice chairman of North Korea’s national Olympic Committee and a vice president of the Olympic Council of Asia.
In 1996, Chang was elected to the IOC. As North Korea’s only-ever IOC member, he represented his country on international sports fields and headed numerous — if often rocky — talks with South Korea to promote sports exchange and cooperation programs between the rivals.
The most notable results of this diplomacy came at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when athletes of the two Koreas marched together under a “unification flag” depicting their peninsula during the opening and closing ceremonies, the first joint parade since their division in 1945.
Athletes of the Koreas walked together at following Olympic Games and major international sports events, including the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea. After watching a joint march in Pyeongchang’s opening ceremony, Chang told reporters that he was deeply moved.
Chang played a key role in earlier reconciliation talks with South Korea, which led to the two countries sending their first unified male and female teams to the 1991 world table tennis championships in Chiba, Japan. In Pyeongchang, the two Koreas fielded their first combined Olympic team for women’s ice hockey.
In a 2004 interview with South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, Chang said that organizing the 2000 joint march was “really a tough” job. He also said he strongly supported Pyeongchang’s earlier, failed bid to host the Winter Olympics.
South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young expressed condolences over Chang’s death. In a Facebook post Wednesday, Chung, a staunch advocate of rapprochement with North Korea, recalled his 2007 meeting with Chang on taekwondo exchange programs and said he honors Chang's “noble dedication to (Korean) unity and peace.”
Sports ties between North and South Korea have suffered as political relations frayed.
There have been no sports or other exchange programs between the countries for years. North Korea has shunned talks with South Korea and the U.S. since its leader Kim Jong Un’s broader nuclear diplomacy with U.S. President Donald Trump collapsed in 2019. Kim also branded South Korea as a permanent enemy and rejected the idea of future unification.
The IOC said Chang’s contributions helped advance sports participation, cultural exchanges and the role of sport in society.
“His efforts to promote cooperation on the Korean Peninsula demonstrated the power of sport to build bridges and inspire hope,” IOC President Kirsty Coventry said.
The IOC said Chang served on several commissions, including Sport for All and the International Olympic Truce Foundation.
North Korea’s official news agency, KCNA, last mentioned Chang in 2023, when he was awarded the Olympic Order, an award given to those who have made extraordinary contributions to the Olympics, during an IOC session in Mumbai, India. Chang, then an honorary IOC member, joined the ceremony by video.
FILE - Then North Korea's International Olympic Committee, IOC, member Chang Ung, middle row left, waves with officials of International Taekwondo Federation for the media upon their arrival at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, on June 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
FILE - Then North Korea's IOC representative Chang Ung, left, arrives after a flight from Pyongyang at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, on Jan. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
FILE - Then North Korea's IOC representative Chang Ung arrives after a flight from Pyongyang at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing on Jan. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
