Stop what you are doing. What happened in Philadelphia on Thursday night requires your full, undivided attention. The Philadelphia 76ers scored 157 points in regulation against the Chicago Bulls, winning the game 157-137 in what stands as the single most explosive offensive performance of the entire 2025-26 NBA season and one of the highest-scoring regulation games in recent NBA history. No overtime. No asterisk. Just 48 minutes of the most relentless, efficient, unstoppable offense you will see all year.
Joel Embiid was the centerpiece of the destruction, posting 35 points on a ridiculous 12-of-17 from the field, including a perfect 3-of-3 from three-point range, while adding 7 assists and 6 rebounds in a dominant display that reminded everyone watching why he is one of the most skilled offensive big men the sport has ever produced. When Embiid is right and the 76ers are in full offensive flow, they are capable of this kind of output, and on this particular night everything clicked simultaneously.
VJ Edgecombe provided the defining secondary performance of the evening, scoring 22 points on an almost unbelievable 7-of-9 from the field and 4-of-5 from three, while adding 6 assists and 6 rebounds in the most efficient individual game of his young career. His 98.2 true shooting percentage for the night is the kind of number that will appear in efficiency record books for years. Paul George added 28 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, and 4 steals, doing exactly what great two-way wings do when the offense is flowing freely.
The team numbers are equally staggering. Philadelphia shot 55.3 percent from the field and a blazing 46.8 percent from three-point range, generating 22 three-pointers made across the game. They built a lead as large as 47 points during the contest, which explains why the Bulls scoring 53 points in the fourth quarter did nothing to make the game competitive by that stage.
For Chicago, Josh Giddey finished with a double double and played well, but this was not a night for moral victories or individual statistics on the losing side. The 76ers put on an offensive clinic. Defense was not just dead. It was buried, eulogized, and forgotten entirely.
