Grizzlies seal stunning upset by eliminating Spurs (Reuters)

MEMPHIS (Reuters) – The Memphis Grizzlies sealed a stunning upset of top-ranked San Antonio in the first round of the NBA playoffs on Friday, beating the Spurs 99-91 to clinch their series 4-2 at the FedEx Forum on Friday.

“I’m pleased with where we are, but not satisfied from the perspective that we have an opportunity to do something really special,” said Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins.

“Not a lot of people knew about us coming in, but we certainly have made some noise and turned some heads and gotten some attention that probably wouldn’t have been given to us if we had lost this series.

“We would have just been another No. 8 seed losing to the No. 1 seed. But I’m pleased with the way it turned out.”

San Antonio scored the first points of the game but a 12-0 run by Memphis forced the Spurs to chase the Grizzlies for much of

Read More from the Article Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110430/sp_nm/us_nba_playoffs


Filed under Sports and tagged , , .

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*


*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>