The Utah Jazz and the Memphis Grizzlies were both short-handed coming into tonight’s game. The Jazz were missing veterans Mike Conley and Rudy Gay and the impressive rookie Walker Kessler. The Grizzlies were without their star point guard Ja Morant. This Memphis team is no stranger to playing without Morant, though, and they have proven to be able to win regularly with him out of the rotation, so this was no easy matchup for Utah.
The game was ugly. From the beginning, it was a game of runs, with Memphis scoring the first four and Utah scoring the next ten.