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PHILADELPHIA – Rudy Gay scored 16 points and place metropolis aweigh for good with a 6-footer in traffic, bringing the metropolis Grizzlies rally from a 21-point inadequacy and vex the Philadelphia 76ers 99-94 on Friday night.

The Grizzlies trailed by 21 in the ordinal lodge and were downbound 16 incoming the fourth. Gay helped the Grizzlies take over downbound the stretch. He threw downbound a thunderous douse and then impact the contested connector to attain it 87-85.

The Sixers were on the brink of a shot-clock ravishment when the ball bounced discover of bounds. Sam Young prefabricated up for a loggerheaded basket in the prototypal half with a connector for a four-point advance and the Grizzlies held on.

Zach Randolph had 22 points and 12 rebounds for the Grizzlies.

The Sixers were too New when they proven to vantage off a comeback of their own. Tony Battie's 3-pointer with 8.3 seconds mitt prefabricated it 93-90 and Jodie Meeks tossed in a daylong 3 and drew the dishonor with 7.1 seconds left. With Sixers chairman Ed Snider standing from his courtside seat, Meeks sank the liberated intercommunicate to vantage the Sixers to 95-94.

Randolph, who prefabricated 10 of 11 liberated throws, impact digit from the distinction and Philadelphia's errant inbounds sailed discover of extent and into the Sixers bench. Randolph capped the win with digit more from the distinction and sent the Sixers to their latest crushing defeat.

Meeks and Jrue Holiday apiece scored 16 points for the Sixers. Elton Brand had 15 points and figure rebounds.

The Sixers appeared to assail the game open when they impact quaternary 3-pointers during a 21-2 separate primeval in the ordinal quarter.

Unlike some of their past wins, when force much as Lou reverend and Thaddeus Young were counted on for bounteous buckets in the ordinal half, the Sixers' starters took over the in the third. Meeks and Andre Iguodala combined for 17 points and the Sixers effort 52 percent.

Meeks impact three 3s during the separate and the Sixers prefabricated octad straightforward shots during the spurt.

It should hit been enough.

Not quite.

The Grizzlies' force sparked a 15-3 separate that clipped the advance to 76-68, but Meeks answered with his ordinal 3 of the game. Iguodala went behindhand the back on the fortuity to Young for a one-handed jam that prefabricated it 84-74 with 5:12 left.

The Grizzlies, chasing the ordinal seed in the West, started breakage absent and mitt the Sixers wondering where it all went wrong.

Memphis played without guard O.J. Mayo, bringing the prototypal game of a 10-game suspension without clear for violating the association and union's anti-drug information with a constructive test.

The Grizzlies hit to be relieved they didn't retrograde by two. reverend missed a connector New in the prototypal half and Young was lonely under the basket to attain the grab. But the ball knocked off his right hand and straightforward through the hoop.

Brand was closest to the basket and credited with the points.

It proved a expensive nonachievement when the Sixers led the Grizzlies 44-40 at halftime.

That embarrassment came a day after the association suspended Mayo for a constructive effort for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). He blamed an over the counter attach that he didn't undergo was illegal by the NBA for the constructive test, but declined to feature which attach he used. He module be able to return Feb. 15, also against the 76ers in Memphis.

One Sixers follower held a sign that read: "Our governance doesn't requirement DHEA to perform."

Notes: The Sixers are 7-8 vs. the Western Conference. ... The Sixers forfeited for meet the ordinal time in their terminal 17 home games.

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