It is hard for many teams to recover from a 51-point loss, especially when it comes in Game 1 of a grueling seven-game series against the best team in the NBA.

Although their 48-34 regular-season win total marked a 21-win turnaround from the year before, and was only four games out of the second seed in a concertinaed Western Conference left for dead by

Ja Morant sustained a hard fall during the first half of Game 3 between the Grizzlies and Thunder on Thursday night.