Memphis at Boston

[Real Deal]

TIME: 7:30 PM ET

TV: NBALP

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BOSTON -- Tony Allen scored a season-high 15 points to help his current team beat his old one. Then he went down the sideline trading fist-bumps and hugs with his former teammates and coaches.

 

Mike Conley had 23 points and nine assists, and Allen had nine points and four of his five rebounds in the second half on Wednesday night to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 93-83 victory over the Boston Celtics. It was the fourth consecutive loss for Boston, which won its 17th NBA title with Allen in 2008.

 

"You come back to a team that you won a championship with, and there's no greater feeling than coming back and getting that win," Allen said. "Put all my feelings and emotions to the side and came out and did everything that Coach Lionel (Hollins) asked me to do."

 

Rudy Gay scored 19 points for Memphis, which shot 61 percent from the floor - and 62.5 percent from 3-point range - in the first half. The Grizzlies led by 18 early in the fourth quarter, then made 8 of 11 free throws down the stretch after the Celtics made it a five-point game.

 

"Whatever we're doing wrong, it's not going to get fixed in a day," said Celtics coach Doc Rivers. "That's what happens when things aren't going well: You've got to make them go well."

 

Rivers was one of the Celtics that Allen sought out for a hug as the clock wound down. Afterward, in the visitors' locker room, Allen was showing off a blood-stained Celtics uniform that he had worn in the NBA Finals; an equipment manager gave it to him.

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