Bobcats earn 1st ever win over Grizzlies

Jason Richardson scored a season-high 38 points and had 14 rebounds and the Charlotte Bobcats held off a fourth-quarter rally to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 105-87 on Saturday night.

Gerald Wallace added 28 points, and Emeka Okafor, Raymond Felton and Matt Carroll had 11 apiece for the Bobcats, who beat the Grizzlies for the first time in team history.

Pau Gasol had 28 points, Juan Carlos Navarro added 21 and Rudy Gay 17 for Memphis, which has lost six of its last seven games and four straight on the road.

Down by 13 points entering the final period, the Grizzlies opened with an eight-point run, capped by Kyle Lowry's three-point play with 10:21 left that cut Charlotte's lead to 75-70.

But Wallace drained a 3-pointer and Richardson hit two more 3s during a 15-4 run that put the Bobcats back in control.

After swapping the lead six times and tying the score three others in the first five minutes, Memphis took its first substantial lead behind a 9-1 run, going up 20-15 on Gasol's hook shot with 5:07 left.

But Wallace scored eight points during a 13-point tear that put Charlotte in command. He opened the run with back-to-back three-point plays to give the Bobcats a 24-20 lead with 3:52 left, then rammed home an alley-oop dunk a minute later to put them up 28-20.

Charlotte managed to stretch its lead to 11 points twice in the second quarter — the last at 40-29 with 4:03 remaining when Bobby Jones was called for goaltending on a Wallace layup — before the Grizzlies closed to 46-41 at the break.