Biggest Loss in NBA Playoffs History: Where Does Ja Morant and the Grizzlies’ 51-Point Humiliation Rank?

Roughly 36 hours after Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies earned their playoff berth, they are facing the first-seeded OKC Thunder team. Memphis got the better of Dallas on Friday in the play-in tournament to earn this season’s final playoff spot, ruining Anthony Davis’ 40 points. Despite coming in positive, there’s a memory that haunts. The Thunder swept the Grizzlies in the regular and none of the games were even close. But everyone expected this game to be much different from the regular-season ones because the stakes are higher than ever before. However, anyone who thought has been proved wrong by Oklahoma City’s young and hungry team. And when the Thunder tried to bend the Grizzlies, Ja Morant and co. crawled.

The first-place Thunder jumped to a 12-point lead after the first quarter. But that was merely the beginning of an onslaught. The lead then increased to a massive 32 points by the end of the first half, with big man Isaiah Hartenstein and Jalen Williams dropping 14 points each. This incredible first-half performance is the biggest winning margin in OKC’s playoff history. They have steamrolled this Grizzlies team so far and increased their winning margin to a stunning 48 points. To even call this age a blowout would be an understatement. Each of the Thunder’s starters has scored in double digits, and it seems that there’s no stopping them. If they keep scoring at this rate, OKC might give Ja Morant and Co. the biggest loss in NBA playoff history.

Ironically, the current record of the largest win in NBA history came by the Memphis Grizzlies in an incredible 152-79 win. Can you guess over whom? Yes! The OKC Thunder were on the wrong end on December 2, 2021. It seems that the Thunder team is returning the favor, and they’re doing that in incredible fashion. While the Grizzlies’ win came in a regular-season game, this loss is much more humiliating for Memphis because it’s during the postseason. Memphis doesn’t even look like it belongs on the same court as Oklahoma City. You could say they’ve been saved by the bell tonight as OKC defeated them by a 51-point margin, just shy of the NBA playoff record.

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