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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Deron Williams scored 27 points to help the short-handed Utah Jazz beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-95 on Monday night.
With two of Utah's top three scorers out with injuries and Mehmet Okur limited with a sore back, the normally unselfish Williams made 11 of 18 shots, including four 3-pointers. The Jazz had lost three of four.
Okur, who missed the last two games with back spasms, did not have any explosiveness but was crafty enough to score 19 points and grab 10 rebounds.
Andrei Kirilenko, filling in for injured power forwards Carlos Boozer and Paul Millsap, had 16 points and 13 rebounds, and changed a number of shots in the lane.
Andre Iguodala and Thaddeus Young each scored 17 points for Philadelphia, which dropped its fourth straight and is winless on its six-game road trip with three more remaining.
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