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Sixers close trip with late spurt, knock off Jazz
Mar 21, 2026; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Philadelphia 76ers forward Jabari Walker (33) goes up for a shot against Utah Jazz guard John Konchar (55) during the first half at Delta Center. Mandatory Credit: Rob Gray-Imagn Images Quentin Grimes scored 25 points and VJ Edgecombe added 22 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 126-116 victory over the Utah Jazz on Saturday night at Salt Lake City.
Trendon Watford added 20 points off the bench for the 76ers (39-32), who won for the fourth time in the last five games. Cameron Payne added 16 points and seven assists off the bench and Adem Bona also scored 16 points for Philadelphia, which played without star Joel Embiid (oblique) for the 12th straight contest.
Ace Bailey had 25 points and seven rebounds and Kennedy Chandler scored a career-best 19 points off the bench for Utah (21-50), which sewed up its third straight 50-loss campaign. Chandler made his team debut after being signed to a 10-day contract due to the Jazz being short on players. Utah suited up eight on Saturday.
Cody Williams and Elijah Harkless scored 15 points apiece and Bez Mbeng had a career-best 13 points for the Jazz, who have lost five of their last six.
Utah shot 40.6% from the field, including a shaky 9 of 40 from 3-point range.
The 76ers, who won two of three on a trip out west, connected on 50% of their attempts and also struggled from deep (6 of 27).
Grimes scored six points during a decisive 12-2 run turned a two-point deficit into a 118-110 lead with 2:35 remaining in the game.
When Utah crept within six, Grimes banked in a short floater to make it 122-114 with 1:36 left and Philadelphia closed it out.
Bailey and Chandler scored 13 points apiece as Utah led 70-64 at halftime. Edgecombe and Grimes each had 12 in the half for Philadelphia.
The 76ers used a 13-2 burst early in the third quarter to take a 77-74 lead on Watford’s basket with 7:26 left in the third quarter.
Edgecombe later buried a tiebreaking 3-pointer to give Philadelphia a 95-92 lead with 41.9 seconds left in the period.
The 76ers took a 95-94 edge into the fourth quarter and later led by four before Utah went on a 10-4 run. John Konchar’s three-point play gave the Jazz a 108-106 lead with 6:43 to play.
–Field Level Media
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FC Dallas outlast Houston with late winner in Texas tussle
Mar 21, 2026; Frisco, Texas, USA; Houston Dynamo forward Ezequiel Ponce (10) attempts a bicycle kick as FC Dallas midfielder Ramiro (17) defends during the first half at Toyota Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images Logan Farrington scored twice in the opening 14 minutes, Petar Musa scored a late winner in the 86th minute in a rare appearance off the bench, and FC Dallas earned a 4-3 victory over the 10-man Houston Dynamo on Saturday night in Frisco, Texas.
Musa also helped create the second-half equalizer — an own goal off Houston’s Duane Holmes — after his halftime entrance for Dallas (2-1-2, 8 points), which earned its first win since its season opener on Feb. 21.
Guilherme scored his fourth goal and assisted tallies from Erik Sviatchenko and Lawrence Ennali for Houston (2-2-0, 6 points) in its first road match of the season.
But Sviatchenko was dismissed in the 68th minute for his second booking, becoming the fourth Dynamo player to receive his marching orders this season.
After scoring five times in Dallas’ first four matches, Musa was not listed on the league’s availability report for the weekend yet began the night unexpectedly outside the starting lineup.
And while it worked out well early, by halftime Dallas manager Eric Quill found his side trailing 3-2 and summoned his Croatian striker.
He immediately provided an impact, helping Dallas pull level in the 54th minute.
Herman Johansson took down a bouncing ball on the right flank, then played the ball up the side for Musa to run onto. Musa dribbled into the box and then tried to drag a cross toward the penalty spot, one that caromed off Holmes and over the line.
The goal was originally ruled offside, but was overturned following a video review.
Just under a half-hour later, Musa showed up again on the same right side, this time to finish off Joaquine Valiente’s tantalizing inswinging service at the back post with a one-touch volley after outmuscling his defender.
Guilherme helped turn Houston’s two-goal deficit into a one-goal advantage in the space of four minutes.
In the 29th minute, he intercepted Dallas goalkeeper Michael Collodi’s wayward pass and turned it into a simple finish before the goalkeeper could recover.
In the 31st, his outswinging corner found Sviatchenko at the back post for a clear header Collodi had little chance of saving.
He capped off the remarkable individual stretch in the 33rd when he found Ennali running in behind around the edge of the Dallas back line with a perfect throughball.
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LAFC continue unbeaten start with scoreless draw at Austin
Mar 21, 2026; Austin, Texas, USA; LAFC forward Son Heung-Min (7) drives the ball against Austin FC defender Brendan Hines-Ike (4) during the first half at Q2 Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images Los Angeles FC continued its unbeaten and unscored-upon streak to begin the season as it played host Austin FC to a scoreless draw on Saturday.
Both goalkeepers earned clean sheets while saving a combined three shots. LAFC’s Hugo Lloris (two saves) earned his fifth shutout of the campaign and extended his stretch without allowing a goal to 450 minutes while Austin’s Brad Stuver (one save) posted his second clean sheet of the year and the 40th of his MLS career.
LAFC (4-0-1, 13 points) have outscored their opponents 8-0 while earning points in their first five matches of the season and continuing the best start to a season in team history.
Austin FC (1-2-2, 5 points) heads to the year’s first international break on a three-game winless streak.
Los Angeles had the best scoring chances of the game, two of which came in the final minutes. First, Mark Delgado ripped a shot from well outside the box past Austin goalkeeper Brad Stuver in the 85th minute that clanged off the crossbar and then out of harm’s way.
A minute later, LAFC’s Son Heung-Min sprinted down the pitch and into the goal mouth before Austin defender Brendan Hines-Ike literally stole the ball off his right foot as Son attempted his shot.
In the first minute of stoppage time, Los Angeles forced Stuver into his only save when Denis Bouanga ripped a shot on net.
Myrto Uzuni had Austin’s final shot on goal four minutes into second-half stoppage time, testing Lloris with a high, twisting shot four minutes which he was forced to leap to bat away. Lloris has now stopped all 16 shots he’s faced this season
LAFC was playing their third game in eight days and was worse for wear, going the entire first half without producing a shot on target while being out-possessed 58%-42% and finishing the opening 45 minutes with a 200-pass discrepancy (368-168).
The Verde didn’t have weariness as an excuse but also did not place a shot on goal in a sluggish first half.
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Paxten Aaronson's brace leads Colorado to rout of Sporting KC
Mar 21, 2026; Kansas City, Kansas, USA; Colorado Rapids midfielder Paxten Aaronson (10) celebrates with team mates after scoring against Sporting Kansas City during the second half of the match at Children’s Mercy Park. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-Imagn Images Paxten Aaronson scored a brace and Rafael Navarro added a goal and an assist to spark the Colorado Rapids to a 4-1 win over Sporting Kansas City in Kansas City, Kan., on Saturday.
Wayne Frederick scored the go-ahead goal in first-half stoppage time and Darren Yapi had an assist for the Rapids (3-2-0, 9 points).
Shapi Suleymanov found the back of the net on a Calvin Harris assist for Sporting KC (1-3-1, 4 points).
Just before halftime, Dante Sealy’s left-footed curling corner kick was turned away by SKC goalkeeper John Pulskamp’s punch save. But the SKC goalie fell off balance into the net and Frederick tapped in the rebound and Colorado took a 2-1 lead.
In the 12th minute, Aaronson chipped a Yapi pass over a diving Pulskamp as the Rapids took a 1-0.
Rapids’ goalkeeper Zack Steffen, who missed the previous two matches with a shoulder injury, was tested early when he made a kick save off a Dejan Joveljic shot from point-blank range in the 15th minute. In the 19th minute, the Rapids pulled Pulskamp out from the box but Yapi and Navarro had shots turned away.
Suleymanov netted the equalizer when he snuck a left footed shot inside the near post off a lead pass from Harris in the 44th minute.
Early in the second half, Steffen met another test when Suleymanov blasted a shot from just outside the box on a restart that the Colorado keeper turned away. Navarro’s sliding goal in the 71st minute extended the Colorado lead to 3-1.
Colorado poured it on when Navarro slipped a pass back to Aaronson for the brace in the 75th minute as the Rapids took a 4-1 lead .
The match got off to a chippy start, as Manu Garcia was issued a yellow card in the fifth minute as he lingered in front of a Colorado freekick. Even though the teams settled into a rhythm, each team was issued three yellow cards. Colorado racked up 21 fouls and SKC had 17. The Rapids held a 9-3 advantage in shots on goal.
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