{"id":468453,"date":"2023-11-06T04:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468453"},"modified":"2023-11-06T04:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T08:47:38","slug":"grizzlies-overpower-trail-blazers-112-100-for-first-win-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/grizzlies-overpower-trail-blazers-112-100-for-first-win-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies overpower Trail Blazers 112-100 for first win of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies emerged victorious for the first time of the new 2023-24 campaign with 112-100 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was a scruffy affair as Memphis had to squeeze it out to the end, but they eventually prevailed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NBA King back on his throne \ud83d\udc51<\/p>\n<p>NBA Free Plays YTD: 8-1 \ud83d\udcb0<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc0 Memphis Grizzlies -2.5 -110 \u2705<\/p>\n<p>YTD: 155-81 \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>The free plays have been \ud83d\udd12 all year&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GamblingTwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GamblingTwitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ENlOmClcN\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/9ENlOmClcN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WSVIzmajv7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WSVIzmajv7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Gambling Gatsby (@GamblingGatsby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GamblingGatsby\/status\/1721385052288745776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Desmond Bane scored 30 points, while Jaren Jackson Jr. added another 27.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve been competing, growing and learning a lot. A lot of people are getting new opportunities,&#8221; Bane said. &#8220;I\u2019m happy with where we\u2019re headed and how we played tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jerami Grant was the highest scorer with 30 points for the Blazers, who snapped a 3-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>The Portland team had a commanding advantage of 86-62 heading into the final quarter, but their morale dropped after an incident forced Robert Williams III to limp off the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to celebrate, you know how hard it is to win this league. We\u2019re going to enjoy this one for sure,\u201d Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a difficult first couple of weeks. But as I\u2019ve said, our guys are resilient. They respond. We\u2019ve been competitive every single night, sometimes it hasn\u2019t gone our way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies emerged victorious for the first time of the new 2023-24 campaign with 112-100 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":468454,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18389,16884,16847],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[21991,17838,18063],"acf":{"announce":"The Memphis team finally clinched victory","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468456,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468453\/revisions\/468456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468453"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468453"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}