Love leads Cavaliers past Grizzlies 106-76

Kemba Walker led the Hornets with 19 points, Jeremy Lin scored 17 and Marvin Williams had 10 points and 10 rebounds.

However, the final twelve minutes was the most disappointing as the Pacers saw a two point lead turn sour, and fast, in the fourth quarter.

Marc Gasol scored 8 of his team-high 20 points in the fourth quarter while the Grizzlies hit 50% from the field.

That the Pacers had chances to win both games without typical production from their best scorers was probably a good thing, although it also indicates the struggle to find a way to get those two into a comfortable rhythm. “It’s something we’ve been working on for a couple of weeks in terms of being able to play with different guys and not just those starters”, Joerger said. “We played two tough teams back-to-back and played well despite not knowing who we are yet”. On Thursday, seven of their players posted double figures, and they scored 39 points in the final quarter.

George Hill led the Pacers with 20 points.

Paul George is back in harness for the Indiana Pacers though he seems far from the star player that everyone knows him to be.

Jeff Green started, came off the bench, played point guard, shooting guard, small forward and power forward.

Kristaps Porzingis, the No. 4 overall draft pick from Latvia, drew plenty of cheers in his first regular-season game at Madison Square Garden, highlighted by a steal and a spin into the middle on his dribble up the court leading to a dunk.

That statement apparently reached the National Basketball Association and for making those public comments, George has drawn a $10,000 fine for publicly criticizing game officials. They went a combined 7-of-28 in Toronto, and were just 8-of-27 against Memphis.

George may have been frustrated by poor shooting as well. LaMarcus Aldridge had 11 points and five rebounds in his debut with San Antonio after nine years with the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Pacers’ first-round selection sat out the season opener on Wednesday because of a sprained ankle.

In his debut with over a dozen family and friends on hand – his parents, grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, best friend, best friends’ parents, etc. – Turner contributed eight points, four rebounds, and a block.

Memphis erased a few of Cleveland’s first-half advantage, but the deficit was too deep to overcome after halftime, particularly since the Cavaliers shot so well from 3-point range.

The Pacers return to the floor at home on Saturday against the Utah Jazz, tipoff scheduled for 7 pm ET.