{"id":292634,"date":"2025-11-19T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292634\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:06:26","slug":"fox-barnes-lead-san-antonio-spurs-past-memphis-grizzlies-in-a-battle-without-stars-wembanyama-morant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292634\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox, Barnes lead San Antonio Spurs past Memphis Grizzlies in a battle without stars Wembanyama, Morant"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 De\u2019Aaron Fox had 26 points, Harrison Barnes<\/a> added 23 points and the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> escaped with a 111-101 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> on Tuesday night in a battle of injury-riddled rosters.<\/p>\n

San Antonio was without All-Star center Victor Wembanyama<\/a> and Memphis was without star point guard Ja Morant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barnes was 9 for 14 from the field, including seven straight points on a running hook, nine-foot floater and 3-pointer to give the Spurs a 107-101 lead with 53.2 seconds remaining. Keldon Johnson<\/a> added 18 points on 8-for-15 shooting.<\/p>\n

Cedric Coward<\/a> had 19 points and Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/a> added 18 points for Memphis, which lost its fifth straight. <\/p>\n

San Antonio has won two straight and five of seven. <\/p>\n

The Spurs are also without injured guards Dylan Harper<\/a> (strained left calf) and Stephon Castle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MRIs revealed Wembanyama has a left calf strain and Castle has a left hip flexor strain. Both Wembanyama and Castle are expected to miss two to three weeks.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 18-31 without Wembanyama and the Grizzlies are 76-93 without Morant.<\/p>\n

Memphis took advantage of Wembanyama\u2019s absence to outrebound San Antonio 59-38 and capture a 22-2 advantage on second-chance points.<\/p>\n

The Spurs were able to overcome those lopsided margins by outscoring the Grizzlies 25-14 in the fourth quarter after a sloppy start.<\/p>\n

Memphis opened the game on an 8-0 run, prompting San Antonio coach Mitch Johnson to call a timeout 89 seconds into the game. The Spurs opened the game shooting 17% from the field, missing 10 of 12 attempts.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Grizzlies: Host Sacramento on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Spurs: Host Atlanta on Thursday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n

Raul Dominguez, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 De\u2019Aaron Fox had 26 points, Harrison Barnes added 23 points and the San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-292634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}