The Rush: Ja Morant scores 47, Draymond Green flips fans the bird in Grizzlies win
The Warriors vs. Grizzlies semifinals is shaping up to be perhaps the best series of the 2022 NBA Playoffs as the series is tied 1-1 after Ja Morant’s 47-point playoff career-high performance downed Golden State. In the Eastern Conference, the Celtics, sans Marcus Smart, dominated the Bucks to even their series at one win apiece. In the NFL, Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan explains why working with Urban Meyer became untenable… and The Rush has questions. Plus, Draymond Green says Memphis fans “should get flipped off” after the Warriors and Grizzlies delivered the most dramatic first quarter of the NBA Playoffs!
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- The shape. Ja Morant gets the roll. Dazzling from Ja Morant. 41 points.
JARED QUAY: Warriors Grizzlies are shaping up to be the best series of the 2022 NBA playoffs.
- This suspense is killing me.
JARED QUAY: Game two of this series was wild. Dillon Brooks was ejected for elbowing Gary Payton in the second in the head, who then went to the hospital with an arm injury, and Draymond Green was busy getting stitches in the head, all in the first quarter. Of course, Draymond did not go quietly into that locker room, flipping the Grizzlies fans the double bird en route to getting stitched up.
DRAYMOND GREEN: You're going to boo somebody who got elbowed in the eye and face running on blood. You should get flipped off. So I'll take the fight and I'll go do an appearance and make up the money, but it felt really good to flip them off.
JARED QUAY: The game came down to the final seconds and had all the flair like monster slams.
- Wiggins still looking for his first field goal. Wiggins!
JARED QUAY: And Steph Curry miracle shots.
- Thompson pumped up in the air. Williams had it knocked out of his hands. Curry's got it! Curry slam off the window.
JARED QUAY: But even going stays in magic couldn't top a playoff career high, 47 points from Ja Morant.
- Morant, the drive got a floater. Ja Morant is special.
JARED QUAY: Memphis got the dove to tie the series one to one. Tuesday's other playoff game wasn't quite as competitive as the subtext crushed the Bucks in game two of their playoff series.
- Quick throws it away. Tatum took care of it.
- Williams, two-handed jam.
JARED QUAY: And Boston did it without the help of defensive player of the year Marcus Smart, who sat out with a quad contusion. Even went Smart the sidelines, Boston's defense did what it needed to do and the C's office came to play too.
- [INAUDIBLE] and Brown knocks down the mid-range.
JARED QUAY: Jaylen Brown busted ankles and put the Bucks in a spin cycle, scoring 30 points. The series is tied up at one game apiece headed in the game 3 in Milwaukee.
Over in the NFL, we got a team owner throwing shade at his ex.
- Oh hell to the yes.
JARED QUAY: In an interview with USA Today's Jarrett Bell, Jaguars owner Shahid Khan had reflected on the failed experiment of Urban Meyer as the Jaguars head coach, saying, quote, "When you lose the respect, the trust, and an issue of truthfulness, how can you work with someone like that? It's not possible."
Here's what I don't get it. Everyone in football knew Urban was a grade-A schmuck long before he was hired by Jacksonville. So Shahid blissfully unaware or didn't turn the blind eye thinking that Urban would improve the bottom line of his business? Shahid Khan is a billionaire, so you know the dude, he's been around plenty of untruthful people before.
Hell, he donated a million to the orange guy, one of the biggest [BLEEP] in the game. Maybe this is a case of billionaires trying to keep millionaires down. It's billionaire on millionaire discrimination. It's like you missing a zero, bro. You ain't welcome.
