Through its first five games, the Western Conference rematch between the Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Clippers had lived up to expectations as the most physical series of the first round of the 2013 postseason. With the Clippers facing elimination at FedEx Forum in Memphis on Friday, we anticipated more of the same — and man, oh man, did we get it.
Game 6 featured 59 personal fouls, 71 free throws, seven technical fouls and one flagrant foul (
Chauncey Billups' third-quarter around-the-neck takedown of
Mike Conley) ... and that doesn't even cover the really good stuff from the Grizzlies' 118-105 win, which earned Memphis a 4-2 win in their best-of-seven series, punched the Grizzlies' ticket for a Western Conference semifinals showdown with the also-victorious-on-Friday top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder and sent the Clippers to a long summer full of questions, headlined by whether unrestricted-free-agent-to-be
Chris Paul will elect to re-up with L.A. or look to ply his trade elsewhere
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