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PHILADELPHIA -- As the tension of the game goes up, Isaiah Thomas calms down.Thomas scored 12 straight Celtics points late in the fourth quarter and tied his season high with 37 points to lead Boston to a 107-106 victory over the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night.Avery Bradley added 20 points for Boston, which won its ninth straight game against the 76ers.I just love the fourth quarter, Thomas said. Some guys get a little tight, a little timid. I embrace it. I want to be great. I want to be somebody my teammates can call on when the game is close.The Celtics certainly know they can go to Thomas, who at 5-foot-9 can be described as a little big man. He entered ninth in the NBA in scoring (25.7 ppg) and now has five games of 30 or more points.Were a little bit like, `Thats Isaiah, Boston coach Brad Stevens said. But he has a special ability to score the ball. My advice to anybody is buy League Pass and watch him as much as he can because hes a fun guy to watch.Rookie Dario Saric tied his career high with 21 points while adding 12 rebounds for Philadelphia, which dressed just 10 players. The 76ers lost their sixth straight.Joel Embiid, who leads the 76ers in scoring (18.7 ppg) and rebounding (7.9 rpg), missed his seventh game as part of the teams rehab plan to not play him on consecutive nights after sitting out the last two seasons with a foot injury.Thomas scored six straight points to make it 98-91 with 3:05 left. The 76ers scored seven of the next nine to pull within 100-98 with just over a minute left. Thomas driving attempt was blocked by Jahlil Okafor and then Saric tied it at 100 with 34 seconds left on a layup that just beat the shot clock.After a timeout, Thomas blew by two defenders for an easy layup that put the Celtics up 102-100 with 30.2 seconds left.Thats what you see with All-Star point guards, Philadelphia coach Brett Brown said. Hes hard to guard.Hollis Thompson missed on a drive on Philadelphias ensuing possession. The Celtics got the rebound and Bradley made one of two free throws with 16 seconds left for a 103-100 lead. Sarics tying 3-point attempt fell short and Marcus Smart made a pair of free throws on the other end.PHILLYS FAST STARTThe 76ers led by as many as 11 points in the opening half before taking a 53-45 lead into the break. The key was 3-point shooting. Philadelphia was 9 for 18 from the arc in the opening 24 minutes while the Celtics were 3 for 11.SARICS SURGESaric had his best game as a member of the 76ers, who acquired him after Orlando selected him 12th in the 2014 draft. He played the last two seasons overseas.He was a man down there tonight, Brown said. Youd walk away and say thats a hell of a player for playing 20 games in the NBA.Saric provided the highlight of the night when he sent Bostons Jonas Jerebko tumbling to the floor with a behind-the-back dribble before pulling up and draining an 18-footer.NOT CONNECTINGThe Celtics entered fifth in the league in both 3-pointers made (11.3) and attempts (31.1) per game. But they struggled from the outside against the 76ers, finishing 8 for 26.TIP-INSCeltics: This was the first of four meetings between the teams. Boston will host the next two games, on Jan. 6 and Feb. 15, before returning to Philadelphia on March 19. ... Thomas career high is 38.76ers: Philadelphia wore throwback jerseys from 1966-67 in honor of the 76ers NBA champions from that season. Billy Cunningham, a player on that team who later coached the 76ers to the 1983 NBA title, rang the replica Liberty Bell during pregame festivities. And many members of the team were recognized in a halftime ceremony.UP NEXTCeltics: Look to end a four-game losing streak to the Rockets when they visit Houston on Monday night.76ers: Cap a four-game homestand by hosting Denver on Monday night. Tom Jackson Womens Jersey Joe Flacco Youth Jersey .com) - Yankee Stadium is the home of the Bronx Bombers, but on Sunday afternoon it will open its gates to host the latest addition of the Hudson River Rivalry. http://www.thebroncosstoreonline.com/Youth-Terrell-Davis-Broncos-Jerseys/ . 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Billy Joe Saunders insists he will not price himself out of fighting world middleweight No. 1 Gennady Golovkin.Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) has not fought since he won the WBO world middleweight title from Irishman Andy Lee via points in December.But promoter Frank Warren is lining up a first defence for Saunders against either Russian Artur Akavov (16-1, 7 KOs) or American Rob Brant (21-0, 14 KOs) on the undercard of Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko II at the Manchester Arena on October 29.Akavov and Brant are ranked 11th and 7th by the WBO respectively and as long as Saunders is successful and unification fight with Golovkin is being planned for February 2017.At the start of the year, Golovkins team made Saunders an offer -- believed to be ￡2.2million -- to face the Kazakh knockout machine in a world title unification clash.But Saunders, 27 turned it down because he wanted more to fight Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs), the WBA-WBC-IBF world middleweight champion.Im ready to fight him [Golovkin] where ever, in England, in America or in a field, said Saunders, who has been kept out of action by a hand injury. Theres nothing that can get in the way of stopping this. Im not pricing myself out, I will fight any man born.Im fighting on October 29. Give me a week and I will fight him then. As long as I can shake my ring rust off in this next one I will fight him then.Golovkin, 34, stopped Saunders fellow Briton Kell Brook in five rounds in London last Saturday to stretch run of consecutive knockouts to 23.ddddddddddddBut Saunders insists he was encouraged by what he saw of Golovkin, who is regarded as the most feared boxer in the world.Everyone is raving about him but I took a lot of confidence from what I saw at the weekends, Saunders said.Im a fully fledged middleweight and not a blown up welterweight. Kell was up on the scorecards and showed a lot of heart and will. His corner were right to pull him out. Kell did well and established himself and all my credit goes to him.Golovkin did what he had should have but I see stuff that I can certainly capitalise on. People are beat before they get in the ring with him. But it is definitely not like that with me. Hes had it rough but so have I. Ive been dragged up.Hes a good puncher, a good puncher and has a good chin. But hes a man and hes definitely beatable.Warren has already began talks with Golovkins promoter Tom Loeffler, but the California-based Kazakh is first being lined up to face American Daniel Jacobs in November.Theres will on both side to make that fight happen and I would prefer it in Britain, said Warren. The money that was offered last time was not enough. We felt he should get more money. Now Golovkin has fought in the UK, think those numbers are achievable. ' ' '