WASHINGTON _ There is something about playing here for the 76ers.
The nation's capital is where they come to lose to the Washington Wizards. Thursday night was no different.
Washington defeated the Sixers, 119-113, at the Capital One Arena. It was the Sixers' 10th consecutive loss to the Wizards in D.C. They've lost 23 of their last 29 games here.
The Sixers (15-7) had their four-game winning streak stopped and suffered just their second loss in 10 games. But it marked their seventh loss in their last nine road games. The Wizards (7-13), meanwhile, snapped their three-game losing streak.
The Sixers tried to battle back from a 15-point, third-quarter deficit, pulling within 5 points twice late in the game.
The second time came on Tobias Harris' two foul shots with 2 minutes, 31 seconds remaining. But that was a close as they would get.
Harris finished with a season-high 33 points. Joel Embiid added 26 points and a game-high 21 rebounds. Ben Simmons had 17 points, eight assists, and three steals.
However, Embiid (eight) and Simmons (seven) combined for 15 of the Sixers' 21 turnovers. The Wizards scored 30 points off turnovers.
Wizards rookie Rui Hachimura had a team-high 27 points. Bradley Beal added 26 points, while reserve Davis Bertans had 25, making 7 of 13 three-pointers. He shot 9-for-16 from the field.
Bertans scored 22 of his points in the first half. He didn't miss a shot until his first attempt in the third quarter _ a three-point shot _ with 6 minutes, 17 seconds left. That came after he went 8-for-8 overall _ including six three-pointers _ in the first half. But he cooled off after intermission.
Meanwhile, Hachimura scored 19 of his points in the first half..
Sixers shooting guard Josh Richardson missed his fourth consecutive game with right hamstring tightness. As a result, Furkan Korkmaz started in Richardson's place for the fourth straight game.
Richardson recently returned to the court, doing individual workouts.
"I'm still just trying to get all the way comfortable and get my strength back again," he said. "So we'll just keep seeing (if there's more progress) in the next couple of days, hopefully."
At the same time, Richardson knows he was to be careful not to rush back too soon.
"A hamstring is one of those things you can think that they are fine and you take one wrong step and it's a week or two-week step back," he said. "So I don't really want to get into that whole cycle."
This is the first time the fifth-year veteran has dealt with a hamstring injury. And the uncertainty that comes with that type of injury can be frustrating.
"It's just one of those things that I just don't really know where I'm at most of the time," he said. "So it just always feels like I'm kind of tiptoeing, trying not to do too much."
