National Basketball Association

Gallinari, Barton lead Nuggets past 76ers, 106-98

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 1:58 p.m. ET

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Danilo Gallinari scored 24 points and Will Barton had 22, including a big 3-pointer late, to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 106-98 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.

Jamal Murray added 22 points for the Nuggets, who won for just the second time in the last seven games. It was their second contest of a six-game road trip.

Ersan Ilyasova, Sergio Rodriguez and Dario Saric all had 17 points for Philadelphia, which culminated a four-game homestand with its seventh straight defeat.

The game featured Murray and Joel Embiid, the NBA's Western and Eastern Conference rookies of the month for October/November. Embiid finished with 16 points.