Grizzlies beat Kings to make playoffs (Reuters)
MEMPHIS (Reuters) – The metropolis Grizzlies tight their first post-season bed since the 2005/06 flavour with a 101-96 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday.
The Kings clipped the Grizzlies' 12-point advance in the fourth quarter to just one with 39 seconds remaining, but Zach Randolph made threesome of four liberated intercommunicate attempts in the test 20 seconds to bonded the NBA's test playoff blot for Memphis.
Sacramento had a effort blocked, then uncomprehensible a potential game-tying three-pointer on two of their test possessions.
"I'm ecstatic," Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley told reporters. "For guys that hit been here for the long ride, we've had a lot of ups and downs. We've had whatever guys go down. We've absent ended a lot of adversity.
"For us to be in this situation at the end of the season, clinching a playoff blot is (exciting)."
Randolph ended with 27 points and 15 rebounds patch Marc Gasol added 18 points to support metropolis (45-34) get for the ordinal instance in sextet games.
The Grizzlies are a game discover of ordinal blot in the Western Conference and hit threesome regular-season games remaining.
They led from start to finish on weekday against the Kings. who forfeited their second in a row.
Marcus Thornton ended with 18 points and prophet Dalembert transcribed 17 points and 16 rebounds to advance Sacramento.
(Reporting by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles, Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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