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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Jason Richardson scored 22 points and Mike Dunleavy added 21 to lead the Golden State Warriors to just their eighth road win of the season with a 104-85 victory over the tired Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night.

Troy Murphy scored 17 points and Mickael Pietrus had 14 for the Warriors, who are in last place in the Pacific Division.

Allen Iverson led Philadelphia with 33 points on 10-for-25 shooting, but had 12 turnovers. The Sixers played their sixth game in eight days, with all the games played as back-to-backs. They went 3-3 during the stretch.

For the third straight game, Chris Webber was basically a non-factor for the Sixers. The five-time All-Star acquired in a stunning trade deadline deal again sat out long stretches of minutes, including the last 4:38 of the third quarter.

He finished with eight points on 3-for-12 shooting in 30 minutes.

After averaging 36.3 minutes in 46 games for the Sacramento Kings, Webber reached 30 minutes for the first time in three games. Webber met with coach Jim O’Brien on Monday to clear the air about his lack of playing time. O’Brien said he wanted better communication.

Webber said before Tuesday’s game that he was used to negativity and controversy surrounding him wherever he plays. He said he would like to make this situation work, but was tired already of answering questions about how well he’ll fit in.

“I want to make the best of the rest of the time I have here,” he said. “I’m still a great player. I’m not going to ever get used to playing 27 minutes a game.”

Webber failed to reach double-digit scoring for only the second time this year, and first since getting six points against San Antonio on Jan. 23.

Webber was booed a couple of times during the game – only about a week and a half since he was introduced to thunderous applause during his home debut – once after an errant bounce pass went out of bounds and again when he came back into the game about 2 minutes into the fourth quarter.

The Sixers – wearing the red-and-orange uniforms of the old Syracuse Nationals – could have used some vintage Webber to spare them the embarrassment of this loss. Golden State, now 8-23 on the road, used a 19-7 run in the third to take control.

Richardson went 4-for-8 and scored nine points in the third. Richardson swiped a pass away from Iverson during the spurt and scored on a fastbreak dunk that made it 70-57 and brought even more boos from a very restless crowd.

Richardson’s 3-pointer from the left side late in the fourth gave the Warriors a 101-81 lead. Murphy sat out most of the fourth quarter as trainers wrapped his left ankle.

Notes: The 76ers honored Hall of Famers Dolph Schayes, Earl Lloyd and the rest of the 1954-55 NBA champion Syracuse Nationals. The Sixers also paid tribute to Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game for the Philadelphia Warriors on March 2, 1962. The Nats were purchased by Philadelphian Irv Kosloff and Ike Richman in the spring of 1963, and the NBA approved the franchise shift and name change from the Nationals to the 76ers. … The Warriors wore their blue “The City” uniforms of the 1966-67 San Francisco Warriors. The Warriors franchise originated in Philadelphia from 1946-62.

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