Thunder complete the second-largest comeback win in NBA playoff history

Chet Holmgren scored each but 1 of his 24 points successful the 2nd fractional arsenic the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied from a 29-point shortage aft Ja Morant near the crippled with a hep wounded and bushed the Memphis Grizzlies 114-108 connected Thursday nighttime for a 3-0 pb successful the first-round series.

Morant was wounded with conscionable implicit 3 minutes near successful the archetypal fractional and Memphis starring 67-40. They got the adjacent handbasket aft helium exited and inactive led by 26 points astatine halftime.

The 29-point comeback was the second-largest successful an NBA postseason crippled since play-by-play information began being recorded successful the 1996-97 season.

The lone 1 bigger: A comeback from 31 points down by the Los Angeles Clippers against Golden State connected April 15, 2019.

The top-seeded Thunder, who won Game 1 131-80 successful the fifth-biggest borderline of triumph successful NBA postseason history, didn’t adjacent person a pb successful this 1 until the 4th quarter. Now, they tin adjacent retired the bid Saturday.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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