The Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Golden State Warriors, 106–85, in the 2026 NBA Las Vegas Summer League on July 14, 2026.
Javon Small led the Grizzlies with 26 points, 7 assists, and five three-pointers. Brendan Hausen added 20 points, knocked down six three-pointers, and grabbed 3 rebounds, while Yaxel Lendeborg contributed 15 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 assists.
With the victory, the Grizzlies improved to 2–1 in Summer League play, while the Warriors dropped to 2–1 on the season
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The Golden State Warriors faced the Memphis Grizzlies on day six of the 2026 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. While the Warriors entered the game undefeated, the Grizzlies dominated the second half, led by a standout performance from Javon Small. The matchup served as a showcase for several rookies and lottery picks, including Cam Boozer and Yaxel Lendeborg.
This is the 2026 NBA Summer League.
Welcome back to Las Vegas.
It is day six, and we got a good one
between Western Conference foes.
The Golden State Warriors have not lost yet here in Vegas.
They take on Cam Boozer and the Memphis Grizzlies,
and Warriors fans are in the house here at the Pavilion.
All right, Dave Graham, EK, part of the Warriors
starting lineup.
He's in the middle with Malafi Leone, Yaxel Lendeborg,
Will Richard, and LJ Cryer.
A lot of guys who played a bunch in the NBA last season.
Same story for the Grizzlies, Taylor Hendricks,
Lawson Lovering, Cedric Coward, and Javon Small
out there with Cam Boozer.
Even though it's a summer league back to back,
most of their guys are in there, including
the third pick in the draft, Boozer,
who's right next to Yaxel Lendeborg as we jump it up.
Lovering controls it for Memphis, and away we go.
If one teammate is doing really well,
that almost takes away from your ability to stand out.
So it's an interesting dynamic for sure.
Boozer off the rim on a three.
Hendricks again on the offensive glass.
He's got the first two.
Lovering the offensive board.
Grizzlies dominating the glass two minutes in.
That's right.
Pass right there.
Boozer and Lovering jams it at one.
Every good player is going to draw two.
How do you get rid of the ball appropriately
is going to be a huge skill.
Lendeborg and Boozer matched up again.
Free ball on the way.
Will Richman right in front of his own bench.
69 games for the Warriors last year as a rookie.
Javon Small pulls it, drills it.
The reality is they tell you, right?
They're like, OK, so just be a great team player.
And they're trying to build all these things.
And they're saying they're watching
all these little things about you as a player.
They care the most about whether that shot is going in
and whether you're getting rebounds and assists.
That's a great hand by Yaxel.
Yeah, Lendeborg to steal.
Leads the break himself.
Richard on the drive.
Approaching the midway point of this first quarter.
Free ball is money.
Brendan Hawson making his first appearance
here in Vegas for the Grizzlies.
Got a player down.
Five on four.
Move it.
Cooper is behind the play.
On the ground for the Grizzlies.
And the Warriors take advantage.
LaJani Jones for three.
And you're a really highly talented player.
You're probably going to be drafted
to a team that's struggling.
So how are you able to adjust to all that losing
and keep a consistent mindset?
So that's something that's very interesting.
And then on top of that, everybody's a great player.
Everybody's the best player.
So you're not really going to have a huge role.
You will be considered a role player.
So for them, there's some players that really struggle.
Oh, man.
Nice put back by Colby Jones.
He has two rebounds, two assists.
Doesn't look to press the score at all in any way.
He's just letting the game come to him.
Offensive rebound.
Nick Boy banks it in.
One of the reasons he fits in with the Warriors timeline
is he's one of the oldest players in his draft class.
He'll be 24 by the time the season starts.
As Chance McMillan drops it in.
Tyler Burden pushing for the Grizzlies.
Gets all the way to the hole and scores.
Burden had a nice little cameo for the Grizzlies
down the stretch last year.
A look away and a swat walk went over
just there on the follow.
Yeah, I got some per diem.
And that per diem was everything.
Colby Jones climbing the ladder.
That's the thing about summer league, too,
is you don't have that many plays.
That'll work.
Graham Ekay.
Here's Javon Small.
Made 12 starts last year in Memphis.
Down the stretch of the season.
Hendricks.
Goes to show it really is.
It means so much to these players.
And so they're all giving 100%.
Good start for Ekay.
Taylor Hendricks, you're kind of old hat at this.
You've been in the league for a few years.
How does that experience help you in this environment?
It's helped a lot.
I've been here for a few years, but this is a new team to me.
So just learning the system, getting extra reps
is always helpful.
You guys are teaming up with one of the marquee players
in this draft, Cameron Bruiser.
What's it been like trying to use some of that experience
to help him and also just relish him as a teammate?
I mean, it's great.
It's been great playing with him.
He's very smart for his age.
I feel like we have really good chemistry.
So I'm excited for the season.
All right, thanks, Taylor.
Best of luck the rest of the season.
I do.
I definitely do.
I definitely see him being able.
And he's very multi-positional.
I do think he's nice.
Lendeborg went right at him that time.
Dave, what do you got on Yaxel Lendeborg?
We all admired his sneaker choice in the first quarter.
Nice catch, Dave.
You know.
I think Jeremy's going to leave the booth
and go try to steal his Nike Shox BB4s he was wearing
in the first quarter.
Rookie from Iowa.
Nice move, Le'J Jones, straight to the hole.
Memphis playing on the second night of a back-to-back.
And Booster's playing both of them.
Jabons, oh, and one.
Before that, he played at Grand Canyon.
Drew, do you like the one free throw?
Like, would you want to see that in an NBA game?
Leone's and one.
You know, it keeps the pace going a little bit more.
It doesn't change the integrity of the game.
A bad free throw shooter and a good free throw shooter
is still, you know, the same.
Carson Cooper on the finish, so two free throws.
So the rule reverts back to the regular thing
you typically see.
Colby Jones with a contested downtown hit from the corner.
McMillan, top of the key, looking
for Oldridge on the post.
Here comes Leone's, trying to shield off Boozer.
Nice finish, fouled by Leo.
Maybe thought he should have gotten fouled again
as they threw it away.
Burton, moving fast, stolen by Leone's.
McMillan spots up, and Barry's a three.
I think we're getting close to finalizing the roster here,
so we're looking forward to that finish point.
Maybe Draymond Green, maybe we'll see beyond that.
Well, Draymond Green did say recently
that he was hanging out with LeBron, playing some golf,
and said he'd be remiss if he didn't talk to him
a little bit about the recruiting pitch.
Leone's from the corner, that's off the mark.
Cedric Coward, the rebound.
Back in the hands of Small, why not?
Why not?
Javon Small on a big heater right now.
The Grizzlies, Small has 19 points in the first half.
Richards got the answer.
Making it tough on each other, these two lottery picks.
Lovering to Small with five to shoot.
Small hits again.
Lovering is my new favorite player.
Even Omar Asiq, which people don't talk as much about,
but he was exactly like that.
Just, hey, how can I get the guards open?
Richard finds Ike, beats the buzzer.
Here comes the big man, Cam Booser at 6'8 and a quarter.
253 pounds, bangs in a three.
Wow.
And incredibly productive, and just wins all the time.
Booser, offensive rebound.
Did you see Lovering with that assist to Booser?
Now Nick Boyd, kick it out, Lendeborg.
Gallops inside and scores.
I do feel like, at least in the last couple of years,
it's been a point of emphasis for the officials
is trying to crack down on those illegal screens.
Yeah.
Lendeborg taking it himself.
Jones, the other guy they drafted.
54th pick.
All the way to the basket, off the rim.
Colby Jones, the offensive rebound.
Lendeborg, got two more.
Absolutely not.
You give these big men more fouls,
you can get hit harder and harder.
Off the miss by Burton Hawson-Hazard.
That went off the backboard.
Did he call it?
I'm not saying he's LeBron, I'm just
saying there's similarities.
I can't think of anybody off the top of my head
in terms of people that I played with.
He is really unique in that sense.
My goodness, how about Brendan Hawson?
He'll get them open.
Tyler Burton driving in the restricted area.
That touch.
Anybody coming from the Boozer family, I'm a big fan.
His father, one of the nicest people,
one of the nicest teammates I've ever had.
L.J. Cryer for three.
This is a new era for the Grizzlies with Boozer
right in the middle of it.
Five to shoot for Hendricks.
Lovering keeps it moving.
Mayshak from the corner.
Jackson Lendeborg, we were noticing your ability
to take contact and still be able to affect
a play on a second effort or a second jump.
What's it take to be able to execute that at this level?
I'm the first one to know if I'm going to make or miss a shot.
It's pretty much all about just having the timing down
to know when the ball's coming off the rim.
Just physically, I'm trying to play as physical as possible.
It's kind of tough to a little bit right now.
I haven't really been making as much as I could,
but I'm going to continue to keep trying to push forward
and create as much as I can for myself.
My second question comes on the behalf of Jeremy Lin.
He couldn't help but notice those Nike Shox
you were wearing in the first quarter.
What size do you wear?
Because if you're not going to wear them anymore,
he may want to ask to take them for you the rest of the day.
Yeah, I wear a 15.
The grip wasn't really doing me much justice today,
but I like those shoes. They're really nice,
but I mean, I can't wear them no more, man.
I appreciate it. Thanks a lot.
Yeah, excellent. And Jeremy, does 15 work for you?
Immediately sprinted to the right side
because he knew exactly where the ball was going to go.
His offensive rebound, his rebounding generally
is just really, really, really good instincts.
Oh, he gambled there, and Boozer made him pay.
Lendeborg getting physical with Macek.
Here's that second jump again.
Got his arm. Got foul. Bust the bucket.
It really feels like everybody in the NBA,
everybody in summer league has those crazy gathers.
There's so much skill from everyone in the league now.
Great hands from Lovering.
Will Richard for three.
Responds to the one Jermaine Macek did on the other end.
Small run to the teeth of the defense.
Got to look up.
Rolled off his hand wrong.
Lendeborg running the floor. Still got to look up.
Looking to see if Lawson, Lajay Jones, takes it himself.
And scores and one.
The franchise, Steph Curry, of course,
his dad Dell, long time in the NBA.
Hornets Hall of Famer.
My dad was an electrical engineer.
But you might be the father of a future NBA player
for all we know.
That might be fun.
That's it.
He was obsessed with Kareem Adiljabar.
That's actually the genesis story
for when it comes to basketball.
For me, it is really with Kareem Adiljabar and the Skyhook.
And a lot of people feel that way about you.
I mean, I feel like I've seen that already happen 10 times
since we walked into the pavilion.
Lajay Jones with a nice finish.
It was getting physical here.
Burton was trying to get around the screen from Mone.
Now Burton chasing LJ Cryer.
Nice move.
My goodness.
It was a three-point game at halftime.
The Grizzlies have been dominant ever since.
But Malafi Leone still playing.
They just still have two lottery picks playing
and on the floor right now.
LJ Cryer high off the glass.
Javon Small, top scorer, 24 points.
That's what they're looking.
That's what he's doing.
Well, you know, Carl Anthony Towns,
one of the best shooting big men ever.
As Wendemore goes right to the basket.
Hendricks for three.
One of the 26 that doesn't make it to the semifinals.
But those consolation games not on the schedule yet.
Richard blocked by Hendricks.
How's your body feeling these days?
It feels like a double their age.
There's Coward still looking for his first made shot.
There it is after he missed his first five.
All rookie team last year for the Grizzlies.
One of those pieces they're trying to build around
as they move forward.
And I think you can see here in the fourth quarter,
both teams now the primary ball screener.
Another tick in the box score for Javon Small.
What a night for him.
26.7 dimes, four boards,
and a heck of a highlight at the end.
It started before the dunk, obviously.
Your outside shooting touch tonight.
What was working for you from the outside?
Five threes.
Your outside shooting touch before the dunk
was working for you all night.
Five three-pointers. What was working?
My teammates just behind me.
I made a few shots early.
I know I can shoot the ball, just kept shooting it.
And, you know, God just gave me the ability
to let the ball go in.
How were you able to use your late run last season
with the Grizzlies to build your confidence
and come into this summer league as a different player?
Yeah, I mean, I've been working all year.
And then, like you said, the experience with me
playing the last few games of the season,
I already know what to expect.
I already know how our offenses ran,
how our defenses ran.
So I just feel like I came prepared.
All right, Javon, thank you so much.