ATLANTA _ The Atlanta Hawks are in complete rebuild mode, but that didn't stop them from beating the 76ers for the second straight time.
This time, Trae Young scored on a 14-foot driving shot with 0.1 second left, lifting the Hawks to a 129-127 outcome Saturday night at the State Farm Arena.
The loss snapped the Sixers' six-game winning streak. The Eastern Conference's third-place team dropped to 47-26 with nine games remaining in the regular season. The Sixers also trail, 2-1, in the season series with Hawks (26-48). Atlanta won the teams' previous meeting, 123-121, back on Jan. 11.
On this night, Young had game highs of 32 points and 11 assists to with six rebounds and six turnovers. Twenty-one of the rookie point guard's points and eight of his assists came before intermission. During that time, Young made 7 of 8 baskets _ including 3 of 4 3-pointers.
Joel Embiid paced the Sixers with 27 points and a game-high 12 rebounds to go with four turnovers. Jimmy Butler scored eight of his 25 points in the fourth quarter. Ben Simmons had 21 points, nine assists, six rebounds, four steals and two blocks.
The Sixers battled back from a 12-point third-quarter deficit and had a three-point lead on Simmons' hook shot with 2:12 to play.
The lead seesawed before Butler's pair of foul shots put the Sixers up, 127-125, with 39.9 seconds left. Taurean Prince knotted the score on a layup 12 seconds later.
After the Sixers had a shot-clock violation on the ensuing possession, the Hawks had a chance to win the game with 3.5 seconds left. Young responded.
This was Embiid's first game played in Atlanta.
The two-time All-Star was sidelined his first two seasons due to foot surgeries. In his third season, Embiid missed the team's 2016-17 contests here due to not being cleared to play on back-to-back nights. He participated in games the night before both matchups at the Wells Fargo Center. However, Embiid would not have played even if cleared for a back-to-back on Jan. 21, 2017. He suffered a left knee injury on a dunk the night before against the Portland Trail Blazers.
He returned to action six days later, but missed the remainder of the season because of a meniscus tear in the knee. And he missed last season's two games here with a fractured orbital bone near his left eye.
Boban Marjanovic hit the first 3-pointer of his career with 6 minutes, 21 seconds remaining in the first quarter.
