Grizzlies Close on a 17-0 Run as Cameron Boozer's 25 and 13 Sink the Warriors 111-108

Photo: NBA.com. Cameron Boozer, Memphis Grizzlies forward.

Cameron Boozer drove on Brandin Podziemski after a switch, spun into the lane and swished a nine-foot turnaround with 20.1 seconds left Friday night, putting Memphis ahead 108-106 at Chase Center. The Grizzlies scored 17 straight points from 106-94 down at 3:47 and beat Golden State 111-108, with the rookie finishing at 25 points, 13 rebounds and six assists in his second NBA game.

"When you got a guard switch on you, you want to punish it, so that was definitely my mindset when I got the ball," Boozer said, per DAZN.

Memphis is 2-0. Golden State is 0-2 and has now lost a home game it led by 12 with under four minutes to play.

The turnover that made it 12

The 12-point hole was partly Boozer's doing. He checked back in at 4:17 and, 20 seconds later, threw a bad pass that De'Anthony Melton picked off. Melton then hit a 23-foot 3 off a Draymond Green assist at 3:47 for 106-94, per the ESPN play-by-play.

He grabbed the defensive rebound on Green's missed layup at 3:19, then drew fouls on Yaxel Lendeborg at 2:02 and on Melton at 1:49 and made all four free throws. Those four points cut it to 106-102. He finished 9-of-9 at the line for the night.

The five Memphis closed with

At 4:17 the Grizzlies brought Ty Jerome, Jaylen Wells, Boozer and Zach Edey back in around Jerami Grant. That five stayed together until Cam Spencer replaced Wells with 12.8 seconds left, per The Dyme's count from the ESPN play-by-play. After Melton's 3, it did not allow a field goal.

Wells started it. Stephen Curry closed out on his 24-foot 3 at 3:34, Wells made it, and Curry's foul turned it into a four-point play for 106-98. Then the Warriors went cold. After Melton's 3, Golden State missed nine shots and did not make another field goal, per AP. The Dyme's count from the play-by-play adds two turnovers in that stretch, a Podziemski lost ball at 1:53 that Edey stole and Green's offensive foul at 12.8 seconds.

Edey scored zero points in the run. He assisted the Wells 3, and he found Jerome for the corner 3 at 1:24 that made it 106-105. He blocked Curry's 28-footer at 1:10. He grabbed the offensive rebound on Grant's miss at 1:00, which led to Green's foul and Wells' tying free throw at 54.7 seconds. Edey finished with eight points and 10 rebounds in 22 minutes and was plus-25, the best number on either side.

Golden State's last 13 seconds

After Boozer's turnaround, Green was called for an illegal screen near half court with 12.8 left, and Steve Kerr picked up a technical arguing it. Jerome made the technical free throw and then a driving layup off a Grant feed at 10.2 seconds for 111-106. Lendeborg's two free throws with half a second left were the only Warriors points after 3:47.

"Eight different things had to happen," Kerr said, per ESPN. "If any one of those eight doesn't happen, I think we win. It was just an avalanche."

He also blamed the whistle. "We probably had six illegal screens tonight," Kerr said, per ESPN. "The flopping that was happening on every single one, it looked like guys were going down like they had been hit by a car."

ESPN Research had the 17-0 as the second-longest fourth-quarter run by an opponent in the Kerr era, behind Houston's 21-0 in 2018.

"Pretty much everything went wrong," Curry said, per ESPN. He scored 24, but on 5-of-15 shooting and 3-of-10 from deep.

Boozer and Lendeborg, round two

This matchup already had a scoreboard. In July, Lendeborg and the Warriors beat Boozer and the Grizzlies 94-90 in the summer league championship game in Las Vegas, with Lendeborg scoring 21 and 10 and taking over late, per ESPN. Boozer had 19 that night and said afterward, "I've got to find a way to assert myself more."

Friday was the regular-season version. Lendeborg was good again, 18 points, 13 rebounds and six assists, per the ESPN box score. One of the two fouls that sent him to the line during the run came from Lendeborg, and the game-winner came against a guard that a Golden State switch left on him.

Memphis at 2-0

Memphis turned it over 27 times Friday, and Golden State scored 38 points off those turnovers, per the ESPN team box. Memphis still won the paint 40-32 and the fast-break column 18-3, per NBA.com, and won the final four minutes 17-2.

Jerome scored 28 and has 73 points through two games, the most in the league, per ESPN. The Dyme already wrote up his 45-point opener. This time the last shot went to the rookie, and Jerome closed it with the technical free throw and the layup that made it a two-possession game.

The Warriors play at Phoenix on Saturday night on the second end of a back-to-back. Curry said he "probably" won't play, and Podziemski said he will sit with back soreness, per ESPN.

Photo: NBA.com. Cameron Boozer of the Memphis Grizzlies drives against the Warriors at Chase Center, Oct. 23, 2026.

Sources: ESPN box score and play-by-play. ESPN, Anthony Slater. AP game story. NBA.com game summary. DAZN, Boozer quotes. ESPN, summer league final. The closing-lineup window and the turnover count in the run are Dyme counts from the ESPN play-by-play.