{"id":492820,"date":"2025-12-24T07:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/492820\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:34:31","slug":"santi-aldama-scores-a-career-high-37-points-with-7-3-pointers-to-lead-the-grizzlies-past-the-jazz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/492820\/","title":{"rendered":"Santi Aldama scores a career-high 37 points, with 7 3-pointers, to lead the Grizzlies past the Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Santi Aldama made seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 37 points to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 137-128 victory over the Utah Jazz on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Jaren Jackson Jr. chipped in 21 points, GG Jackson II had 18 points, and Jock Landale added 17.<\/p>\n

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Cam Spencer dished out a career high 13 assists to go with 11 points, while Aldama added a season-high seven assists to help the Grizzlies snap a two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Memphis shot 56% from the field and made 19 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Kyle Filipowski led Utah with 25 points and 13 rebounds while Keyonte George added 24 points. Taylor Hendricks had a career-high 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting and Ace Bailey chipped in 17.<\/p>\n

Memphis never trailed during the first half, after shooting 54% from the field, and built a 15-point lead late in the second quarter while scoring baskets on six straight possessions. Landale and Jaylen Wells each made back-to-back baskets to cap the run and put the Grizzlies up 65-50.<\/p>\n

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The Jazz rallied to make it a one-possession game in the final minute before halftime. George fueled a 17-4 run with three baskets, then Svi Mykhailiuk punctuated the run by cutting to the rim for a layup that trimmed Memphis\u2019 lead to 69-67.<\/p>\n

Utah took its first lead of the game 93 seconds into the third quarter, going in front 71-69 on a running dunk from Filipowski.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies pulled away again late in the third and went up 111-101 when Jaren Jackson Jr. opened the fourth quarter with a layup. Aldama scored 16 points in the third quarter to rally Memphis after the Grizzlies fell behind.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Grizzlies: Host Milwaukee on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Jazz: Host Detroit on Friday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

John Coon, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Santi Aldama made seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 37 points to lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[224,7,8675,296,1265,294,496,2597,3692,955,1251,293,177,4070,102,6,1185,13506,4884,181,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-492820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-ace-bailey","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cam-spencer","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-gg-jackson","13":"tag-grizzlies","14":"tag-jaren-jackson-jr","15":"tag-jaylen-wells","16":"tag-jock-landale","17":"tag-keyonte-george","18":"tag-kyle-filipowski","19":"tag-memphis","20":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","21":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","22":"tag-milwaukee","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-santi-aldama","25":"tag-svi-mykhailiuk","26":"tag-taylor-hendricks","27":"tag-the-grizzlies","28":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115773391793568658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}