Clippers can’t stop Ja Morant’s scoring surge in loss to Grizzlies
by Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times
Nov 19, 2021
3 minutes
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Again and again, the Los Angeles Clippers’ coaching staff yelled toward FedEx Forum’s court to tell their defenders what the scouting report, Thursday’s first two quarters and even last season’s trip to Memphis had told them was coming.
Ja Morant was coming. And again and again, the star Memphis point guard with the slight frame and braids tied in a knot scythed into a short-handed version of the NBA’s second-best halfcourt defense, turning a game of punches and counterpunches into a 120-108 Grizzlies win lopsided enough that
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