PHILADELPHIA — Next staring at the Boston Celtics near Recreation 6 of the Jap Convention semifinals with a 14-3 run to exit out of Wells Fargo Middle with a 95-86 victory and push the matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers to a Recreation 7 on Sunday, the NBA’s newly minted Maximum Significance Participant, Joel Embiid, mentioned his staff might be able when this sequence resumes in 72 hours.

“We know what we got to do,” mentioned Embiid, who completed with 26 issues and 10 rebounds in 40 mins. “We’ve gone on the road and we’ve won. It’s not going to be easy in that environment, but it’s the same thing. Everybody has to step up, starting with me. I got to be more aggressive, as far as shooting and making sure I get my teammates looks and everybody else has to do their job and everybody has to show up.

“But it surely’s taking to be a laugh. Recreation 7 … that’s why you play games, for a lot of these video games. This night was once lovely difficult, however we know the way a lot better we may have been. … We’ve were given to reply, and were given to exit win.”

It briefly appeared that Philadelphia would be able to win Game 6 when Jayson Tatum — who at that point was 1-for-14 from the field — committed a clear-path foul on Tyrese Maxey that, after Maxey hit a pair of free throws, made it 83-81 Philadelphia with just under six minutes to go.

But instead of closing the game out, the 76ers closed up shop, missing nine consecutive shots over the next several minutes before a meaningless bucket by reserve Jaden Springer with 22 seconds remaining capped the scoring.

In the interim, Tatum buried four 3-pointers to save both his game and Boston’s season, with Philadelphia being left to regret its stagnant late-game offense and rue a missed opportunity to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in a generation.

While Embiid went 3-for-6 from the field in the fourth quarter, the rest of the 76ers combined to go 2-for-14.

“I don’t suppose we relied on rather well,” 76ers coach Doc Rivers said. “We had a dozen of wide-open 3s. We didn’t produce them. I didn’t like how we performed total offensively i’m sick the stretch. Were given to play games in the course of the weighty fella extra. Didn’t suppose the ball went there [enough].”

It was a rough box score overall. Despite Boston committing 18 turnovers and Tatum’s awful game through the first 42 minutes or so, the Celtics improved to 35-2 between the regular and postseasons when they hit at least 40% of their 3-point shots thanks to Marcus Smart (22 points), Derrick White (9) and Malcolm Brogdon (16) going a combined 10-for-19 from deep.

As a team, Philadelphia went 8-for-34 from beyond the arc, including James Harden missing all six of his shots.

Across the six games in this series, Harden — after going 4-for-16 in Game 6 — is a combined 9-for-44 in Philadelphia’s losses, compared to going 37-for-61 across the 76ers’ three wins.

Harden, though, said he wasn’t going to lose faith after an off shooting game and expressed frustration over a lack of foul calls.

“I’m now not going to take a look at my capturing share,” said Harden, who finished with 13 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists, but had 5 turnovers.

“I did a dozen of actually excellent issues offensively. … They packed the paint, so that they’re forcing us to produce pictures. It’s now not a brittle recreation. I’m now not taking to drive it.”

But Boston has forced Philadelphia into a Game 7, after the 76ers played a nearly flawless game in Boston on Tuesday night to reclaim home-court advantage for a second time in this series.

Part of the story of Thursday’s game was Boston going back to its two-big lineup with Robert Williams III and Al Horford — the grouping that powered the Celtics to the NBA Finals last year but hadn’t seen the court for a single possession in this year’s playoffs before Game 6.

And while Williams was plus-18 in Game 6, Embiid said the lineup change didn’t make an impact.

“It didn’t impact us,” Embiid said. “We neglected a dozen of wide-open appears to be like this night. I’ll hurry them. Were given to retain capturing them. There’s a reason they was at that double weighty, to have anyone to give protection to the rim and he was once pulling over each unmarried moment. In order that’s the place we were given to have that believe and retain shifting the ball and discovering guys and trusting each and every alternative and retain taking the ones pictures. I believed we had a dozen of excellent alternatives and we simply were given to transform them.”

They’ll get the chance to Sunday, when Embiid and the Celtics head to Boston for the third Game 7 of his career. The first two — in the conference semifinals in 2019 in Toronto, and 2021 at home against Atlanta — resulted in losses.

Now, he and 76ers will get another chance at advancing to the East finals, and at beating Boston in a playoff series for the first time since 1982.

“We knew we needed to exit thru this staff,” Rivers said. “Not anything’s modified. All of them have been pronouncing that. It wasn’t a i’m sick store room. I cruel they have been dissatisfied they misplaced the sport, however you didn’t have a store room of any one feeling defeated or anything else like that. I will be able to agreement you that.”