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At age 22, Poole became the youngest Warrior ever to score 30 or more points in a conference semifinal Game 1. Ja Morant edged Jackson with 34 points, the third ...

In the end, even with Warriors defensive ace Draymond Green having been ejected for a flagrant foul on Brandon Clarke in the second quarter, Memphis came up short in a Game 1. "Do what we've done all season," he said of the plan moving forward. "I missed a layup I normally make all the time," Morant admitted after finishing with 10 assists and nine rebounds. "It's just being able to make the right play, and get these other guys good looks." And like Poole, there was much more to his game than just long-range shooting. But Morant couldn't convert a buzzer-beating driving layup that could have flipped the final score in Memphis' favor.

The Memphis Grizzlies are looking to even the series against the Golden State Warriors before heading out west.

Two options to guard Poole are on the injury report. Poole erupted for 31 points and Memphis didn't have an answer. A one-point loss has the Grizzlies trailing 1-0 versus the Warriors, but coach Taylor Jenkins was encouraged by how his team played.

The Celtics and Grizzlies are looking to avoid falling behind 2-0 in their second-round series tonight against the Bucks and Warriors.

He just put up a 0-1-0-0-0 stat line in 13 empty first-half minutes. Through the first six quarters of this series, Memphis has been the better three-point shooting team. Just missed two leaning baseline mid-rangers during this Grizzlies run. Klay Thompson is now 10 of 34 shooting in this Memphis series. The sixth make was a straight on Steph Curry banked 3 to go up three with 4:53 left. •1h ago •1h ago •1h ago Ja Morant has scored 13 consecutive points for the shorthanded Grizzlies over the last four minutes in crunch time. •1h ago •1h ago •1h ago

The Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies were set to square off for Game 2 of their second-round series on Tuesday, but within minutes, ...

But on Tuesday, Green left the floor for a different reason. A Flagrant 2 knocked him out of Game 1 of this series on Sunday. Grizzlies wing Dillon Brooks was quickly knocked out of the game after committing a Flagrant 2 foul on Warriors guard Gary Payton II. Draymond Green knows the feeling.

Less than three minutes into the game, Gary Payton II went up for a layup and was hit hard by Grizzlies guard Dillon Brooks. Warriors on NBCS.

He returned for the start of the second quarter. He needed attention from the training staff before returning to the game. "That wasn't physical," Kerr told TNT's Jared Greenberg before the start of the second quarter.

The Memphis Grizzlies have finalized their injury report for Game 2 against the Golden State Warriros on Tuesday evening.

- CHRIS PAUL MEETS WITH MEDIA AFTER GAME 6: The Phoenix Suns clinched their first-round playoff series with a win over the New Orleans Pelicans in Game 6 on Thursday evening. In the fourth quarter, the Warriors had a double-digit lead, but the Grizzlies rallied back and had a chance to win the game at the buzzer but All-Star Ja Morant missed the shot. Game 2 will have huge implications, because the Warriors won the first game and Games 3 and 4 are in Golden State.

With the 2021-22 NBA regular season now in the books, the basketball betting market is hotter than ever. CBS Sports will be providing daily picks for the ...

In addition to this pick on Golden State in Game 2, I'll put this out there: Caesars is offering +275 on a Warriors sweep. Milwaukee so aggressively gave up 3-pointers as part of a ruse to cover for their poor defenders. Plenty went wrong for the Celtics offensively in Game 1, but a big part of their struggles boiled down to lazy game planning.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies have shown they can finish fourth quarters this postseason. Well, the Golden State Warriors have ...

… They won a road game in a series extending their NBA record to a 25th consecutive series. … They also started on the road against Houston in 2018 and Toronto in 2019. This also was just the first time the Warriors started a conference semifinal on the road and third playoff series Golden State didn’t start at home with Kerr as coach. … They improved to 2-0 in Game 1s this postseason and 20-2 since the 2015 playoffs. Ziaire Williams missed his second game with a sore right knee. The Grizzlies finished their firstround series against Minnesota by coming back from double-digit deficits in their final three wins — the first team in NBA history to do that more than once in a postseason, let alone a series. Morant had 14 to help the Grizzlies lead 32-24 after the first quarter. Thompson missed both free throws with 6.7 seconds left, then Memphis won a jump ball before a timeout with 3.6 seconds remaining to set up the final play. Thompson only played one and Green two of those games and Curry three. Never let go of the rope in terms of feeling like you’re out of a game. Thompson helped defend Morant on the final drive, picking up when Gary Payton II was beaten. Curry added 24 points, Andrew Wiggins had 17 and Thompson finished with 15.

With Gary Payton II out indefinitely, coach Steve Kerr has to scrap his initial game plans for the series against the Grizzlies.

The Warriors have to shred the first page of their plan for the series. With Payton X-rayed and unavailable, Ja had his way with every defender the Warriors threw at him. It knocked him out of the game.” Moreover, Kerr also knew for sure that Payton, inserted into the starting lineup specifically to defend Ja, will miss the rest of the series. He quickly suspected Payton might not return to the game, and he did not. That comment was made in an interview with TNT’s Jared Greenberg between the first and second quarters.

Dillon Brooks' dirty play broke Gary Payton II's elbow and established a new tone to this playoff series.

Don’t get me wrong, the Warriors didn’t deserve to win on Tuesday. They should blame themselves first and foremost for the Game 2 loss. Basketball’s gray area says the Warriors played poorly and barely lost. And anything that happens after that dirty play is on Brooks. Payton didn’t break his own elbow. The Grizzlies broke “the code” in Game 2. They turned the ball over 18 times. What about if Morant had not flopped when Green was trying to pull down a critical rebound with 50 seconds to play? And because Memphis is so inexperienced, their efforts to muck up games come across as brutish. That’s where the line is.” Now, any notion of this series being good-natured and respectful is over. Draymond Green played three quarters with his eye swollen shut after he took an elbow to the face. But there’s a code in this league. “The line is pretty clear,” Kerr continued.

Ja Morant loomed large in the clutch in a game defined by physical play and postgame accusations as the Grizzlies evened the West semifinals 1-1.

Here’s one area the Warriors need to clean up in a hurry: Through two games, they have been outscored on 3-pointers by 27 points. Can it match the ear-deafening “Roaracle” vibes from the Warriors’ much-loved old home in Oakland? Games 3 and 4 will be the first real test. With only 1:26 left, he still was trying to locate the rim, so he launched a practice shot from the right corner. Kerr got irate just 2:52 into the game when Memphis forward Dillon Brooks wound up and slammed guard Gary Payton II across the head while Payton was trying to finish at the rim. Thompson, one of the league’s most lethal shooters prior to his layoff, finished 5-of-19 and 2-of-12 on 3-pointers. “I was able to return that message tonight saying the same thing.” Morant completed a three-point play to tie at 89-89 at 6:11, but when Stephen Curry splashed a open three from the left side to make it 95-91, it was clear the home team needed more. No one else scored for Memphis the rest of the night — it was Ja 15, the Warriors 6 over the final 4:33. He was everything you’ve seen in the highlights, not just from Game 2 but all season (he did win the Kia Most Improved Player Award, after all). He hypnotized defenders, rocking them back and forth before exploding to the rim. When the ball came to him anyway, he was feisty enough to launch a 3-pointer … but it missed because, well, he could not see. Morant sat out the first three minutes of the fourth quarter, trying to clear his vision. There was Michael Jordan’s “flu” in the 1997 Finals and Willis Reed’s gimpy knee against the Lakers in 1970. Even as that period ticked away, he gestured a couple of times to the Grizzlies’ bench that he could not see.

The Memphis Grizzlies evened their second-round series with the Golden State Warriors at one game apiece with a 106-101 victory in Game 2 on Tuesday.

Curry gets a clean look at hits a three. His defense, cutting and finishing and overall energy is a huge part of what the Warriors do. Steve Kerr called it a dirty play, and I agree. And Dillon Brooks took it away from him. The difference now is they can't consistently shoot their way out of trouble as Curry and Thompson are simply not the marksmen they used to be, or at least they haven't been this season. His case is less suspicious; he's still less than four months into his return from two years off with a torn ACL and ruptured Achilles. Still, he needs to rein in some of his no-conscience ways, particularly off the dribble, which is not his strength. You can tell how locked in a shooter is by his misses -- are they short or long, a better sign, or missing left and right? Curry and Klay Thompson combined to shoot 5 for 23 from 3 and 16 for 44 overall. Morant, who brought the Grizzlies home with 18 fourth-quarter points, was ultra aggressive, getting up 31 shots, and 12 of those were from beyond the arc. Morant caught a break early on when Gary Payton II was lost for the game after a Flagrant 2 foul courtesy of Dillon Brooks, who was ejected. As mentioned at the top, his 47 points puts him on a list with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James as the only players in history to post multiple 45-point playoff games before the age of 23. Game 3 is set for Saturday in San Francisco.

This Warriors-Grizzlies series presents a contrast: a once dynastic team that hasn't played together much recently; and a young squad that's been building ...

Morant said these buckets in Game 2 were made with limited sight after taking a shot to his left eye in the third quarter. Following the buzzer of Golden State's razor-thin win in Sunday's Game 1 -- the margin being the missed layup that would be stuck in Morant's craw for the next 48 hours -- Curry found Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr. before they returned to their respective locker rooms. He offered no breakdown of how the defense was scheming and no description of his emotional state. For the second time in the past two weeks when asked about his mindset and strategy during his fourth-quarter takeovers, Morant was brief in response. While his counterpart in the Western Conference semifinals, Ja Morant, has spent his early 20s with the Memphis Grizzlies leading one of the quickest NBA rebuilds in recent years, Curry said he was still losing his CatCard -- and trying to remember the location of his dorm. And while Curry was figuring out how to play the pro game, behind Acie Law IV, Morant is playing at the league's high-stakes table, controlling games with his tenacity.

Ja Morant tied the Memphis Grizzlies' postseason franchise scoring record in a Game 2 victory over the Golden State Warriors.

He helped the Grizzlies tie a franchise record with 56 victories, then changed the course of their first-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves with a devastating dunk, a dominant fourth quarter and a game-winning layup in Game 5. Late in the third quarter, he took a shot to the face that left him with blurred vision in his left eye. Shortly after Brooks’s ejection, Green took an inadvertent elbow to the face from Xavier Tillman that drew blood and left him writhing on the court in pain. “It’s the force that [Morant] plays with. To seal the win, Morant made a pair of free throws with 13.2 seconds left. While Morant could chuckle about his optical misadventure, the Warriors were irate over a pair of first-quarter incidents that left them battered and bloodied. Morant finally returned with a little under nine minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, missing his first two shots as he tried to get his bearings. But the final six minutes wound up being a blur for everyone in the raucous building, as Morant entered takeover mode and scored Memphis’s last 15 points. The injury forced him to the locker room for treatment, and Grizzlies Coach Taylor Jenkins said that his star had “needed to get his vision reset.” The Warriors entered this second-round series as favorites thanks to their championship pedigree and extensive postseason experience, but Morant has ensured that the Grizzlies haven’t been intimidated or star-struck. “He said, ‘It’s going to be a battle. Beyond the obvious redemptive aspect of his bounce-back performance, Morant seized the opportunity to position Memphis as competitive equals to Golden State.

After the game ended in a 106-101 Grizzlies victory, Steve Kerr delivered the grim news: Payton has a fractured left elbow. He will have an MRI Wednesday to ...

No foul was called on the play, and the sequence was not reviewed. If the first two games are any indication, this is going to be an incredibly physical and fiery series. Payton fell hard to the floor, injuring his elbow as he tried to brace himself, and was later ruled out for the rest of Game 2. He will have an MRI Wednesday to determine the extent of the damage. That's where the line is." "The line is pretty clear.

Not only did they lose to the Memphis Grizzlies 106-101 in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals at FedExForum, but they also had a historically bad ...

Klay Thompson had one of the worst games of his playoff career, scoring 12 points on 5-of-19 from the field and 2-of-12 from 3-point range. Steph Curry led the way with 27 points, shooting 11-of-25 from the field but struggled from 3-point range, shooting just 3-of-11 from distance. The Warriors were 7-of-38 from 3-point range against the Grizzlies, an uncharacteristically bad performance.

It was an all-out duel from start to finish as the Grizzlies held off the Warriors 106-101 in Game 2 of the Western Conference Semifinals on Tuesday.

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Steph Curry met with the media after the Golden State Warriors lost to the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 2.

- CHRIS PAUL MEETS WITH MEDIA AFTER GAME 6: The Phoenix Suns clinched their first-round playoff series with a win over the New Orleans Pelicans in Game 6 on Thursday evening. Meanwhile, the Grizzles are a young team but they did make the playoffs last year when they lost to the Utah Jazz in the first-round in just five games. Here's What Steph Curry Said After The Warriors Lost Game 2