PHILADELPHIA -- 76ers center Joel Embiid returned to game action for the first time in three weeks Sunday night against the Atlanta Hawks as he, Paul George and Tyrese Maxey played together for the first time this season.

Yet the fact those details became a footnote spoke to the strangeness of the game, won 142-134 by the Hawks in double overtime.

It was a game from which both teams walked away saying they genuinely had the contest won at different points, only to let it get away, and one that featured a possibly unprecedented officiating miscue, with an "accidental" review causing chaos at the end of the first OT period.

When it ended, Embiid, George and rookie VJ Edgecombe -- who returned after missing three games with a calf issue -- all were rooted to the bench, having

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