NBA fines Grizzlies' Fizdale $30000 for officiating rant

Memphis shot only 15 free throws despite attempting 35 shots in the paint, compared to San Antonio's 32 free throw attempts.

Game 3 is Thursday night in Memphis. But Memphis coach David Fizdale was furious after the game at what he saw as referees basically giving the game to San Antonio. Kawhi shot more free throws than our whole team. Without the benefit of many shots at the charity stripe (Memphis shot just nine free throws in the second half), the Grizzlies stormed all the way back and brought the game to within four early in the fourth, only to sputter out and lose the game 96-82.

Fizdale started his postgame news conference in a fairly calm manner, but by the end he had spawned two sayings: "Take that for data" and "They're not gonna rook us". "We don't get the respect that these guys deserve because Mike Conley doesn't go insane".

'It's unfortunate that I've got a guy like Mike Conley, who in his whole career's got zero technical fouls. But as much as we love Fizdale and this Grizzlies team, the Spurs are on a different level.

We had two first-round games on Monday night, and both followed a similar pattern. "And they did not even give us a chance". That's unacceptable, that's unprofessional.

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Pau Gasol ended with 10 points and five rebounds for San Antonio, which secured its 10th consecutive postseason win over Memphis. The Grizzlies had less than half (15) as many free throw attempts as the Spurs. After calling it "huge" for the team's confidence, he then went off on a tangent, ripping into the officiating and how Leonard had more free throws than his entire team, despite being a team that is more aggressive closer to the basket.

The Grizzlies are nothing if not gritty and they battled to within 11 points at the 6:08 mark of the third quarter by outscoring San Antonio 13-5 in the first six minutes of the period.

Kevin Durant missed Golden State's practice Tuesday because of a strained left calf and was listed as questionable for Wednesday's Game 2 against Portland, which again will be without center Jusuf Nurkic.