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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Zach Randolph scored 25 points, including a rare 3-pointer with 41.9 seconds left, and the metropolis Grizzlies beat the San Antonio Spurs 91-88 Sat period for the franchise's prototypal playoff victory on its bag court.

These Grizzlies hit been laboring this postseason making lots of history at the Spurs' expense. They unsealed this series with their prototypal playoff win, and today the No. 8 cum has a 2-1 advance over the Western Conference's prizewinning aggroup during the lawful season.

Memphis is disagreeable to embellish just the fourth aggroup to knock soured the top-seeded team.

Game 4 is weekday period in Memphis.

Marc Gasol scored 17 points, Mike Conley had 14 and O.J. Mayo had 10 soured the governance for Memphis.

Manu Ginobili led the Spurs with 23 points. Tony saxist had 16, Tim dancer 13 and martyr Hill 11.

The Spurs exclusive led early and never by more than 1, the terminal at 12-11. They lapse behindhand by as such as 15 before managing to tie it up twice in the test 8:06, the terminal at 80 on a Ginobili liberated throw.

Parker's alter layup pulled the Spurs within 88-86 with 1:04 left. The Grizzlies took a timeout, and Randolph looked for an choice with the effort clock sound down, then he place up the 3-pointer over Duncan's outstretched arm. The ball lapse in with 41.9 seconds mitt for a 91-86 advance that sparked fans to chant his soubriquet "Z-Bo, Z-Bo."

Ginobili impact a unify of liberated throws with 31 seconds, but the Spurs couldn't intend soured a effort reaching up the right side at the end. Ginobili got obstructed and looked like he was disagreeable to transfer patch dancer tried to call timeout. He was likewise late as the alarm sounded, sparking a bounteous celebration.

The Spurs managed to outrebound metropolis 48-37, but the Grizzlies had a 44-40 bounds in the makeup as they worked the ball exclusive to Randolph and Gasol. They also had a 17-9 bounds on the fast break against the Spurs. The NBA's prizewinning 3-point shooting aggroup was a scanty 2 of 15. metropolis impact exclusive 4 of 11, including Randolph's bounteous 3.

Antonio McDyess went to the compartment room with 2:56 mitt in pain, but no update was directly available on his injury.

The Spurs intellection getting Ginobili backwards and winning Game 2 got them backwards on track. But San Antonio ended the lawful flavour losing sextet of their test heptad road games, and metropolis won 30 of its 46 games in the FedExForum. The Grizzlies also had just the fifth sellout gathering of the flavour rooting them on.

Memphis tapped into the city's past by bringing discover combatant Jerry Lawler to help blast up the sold-out gathering after a band right the FedExForum in life of the Grizzlies' prototypal bag playoff game since 2006. One follower had a blown-up cutout of Eva Longoria's nous with a Grizzlies' headband, and it was held up near courtside disagreeable to taunt Parker.

All the excitement may hit been likewise such as Memphis, with octad Grizzlies in their prototypal bag playoff game, missing sextet of its prototypal heptad shots. They effected downbound and impact nine of the next 11.

The Spurs had prefabricated an NBA-best 58 liberated throws finished the prototypal two games, more than the Grizzlies had modify attempted. Gasol picked up a foul on the Spurs' prototypal possession, eliminate dancer impact exclusive air on his prototypal endeavor patch clanking the ordinal soured the face rim.

The Spurs' terminal advance in the prototypal half came when martyr Hill tipped in a effort at 12-11. Gasol place metropolis ahead with a three-point play, kicking soured an 18-8 spout that mitt the Grizzlies up 29-20 at the end of the prototypal quarter. The Grizzlies pushed that advance to as such as 15.

NOTES: Randolph was 8 of 43 from 3-point range during the flavour and had attempted exclusive one in the postseason before his clinching shot. ... With Duncan, the Spurs hit never won a series they started with home-court plus exclusive to retrograde two of the prototypal three. ... metropolis had been 0-4 in the playoffs at the FedExForum and 0-6 overall at home.

(This edition CORRECTS Grizzlies 91, Spurs 88. Corrects 2nd graf to exhibit Spurs had West's prizewinning record, not prizewinning in NBA.)

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