{"id":411262,"date":"2011-04-30T20:13:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/30\/young-thunder-grizzlies-find-success-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-30T20:13:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:13:22","slug":"young-thunder-grizzlies-find-success-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/30\/young-thunder-grizzlies-find-success-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thunder, Grizzlies find success (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"42.9074492099\">\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)\u2014The new kids in town are trying to take over the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/mem\/\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> already knocked out the top-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/sas\/\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> and will now face the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/okc\/\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> in a series that ensures one of the NBA\u2019s rising young teams will make it to the conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder and Grizzlies were the league\u2019s two youngest teams at the start of last season, then improved their win totals more than any other teams. That rapid ascent has carried both into the second round of the playoffs, with Game 1 on Sunday in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Each team must find a way to slow down the other\u2019s superstar. <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3531\/\">Zach Randolph<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3531\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> averaged 26.5 points and 13 rebounds against the Thunder in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>NBA scoring champion <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4244\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4244\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> needed a 40-point performance to get Oklahoma City its only win in the four-game regular-season series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/155ca00728845253809.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nba\/SIG=11ug8319t\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/news?slug=ap-grizzlies-thunder\" title=\"Young Thunder, Grizzlies find success (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Thunder, Grizzlies find success (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)\u2014The new kids in town are trying to take over the Western Conference. The Memphis Grizzlies already knocked out the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs and will now face the Oklahoma City Thunder in a series that ensures one of the NBA\u2019s rising young teams will make it to the conference finals. The Thunder and Grizzlies were the league\u2019s two youngest teams at the start of last season, then improved their win totals more than any other teams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Young Thunder, Grizzlies find success (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/30\/young-thunder-grizzlies-find-success-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Young Thunder, Grizzlies find success (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)\u2014The new kids in town are trying to take over the Western Conference. 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