Chris Paul made the game-winner with a tenth of a second left Monday, lifting the Los Angeles Clippers to a 93-91 win over the Memphis Grizzlies that stretched their NBA playoff series lead to 2-0.

The victory followed the Clippers' 112-91 triumph on Saturday in game one of the best-of-seven Western Conference first-round series, which shifts to Memphis for game three on Thursday.

Memphis center Marc Gasol's slam-dunk with 13.9 seconds remaining had knotted the score at 91-91.

After a timeout, Paul drove to the basket and banked in a shot over Tony Allen.

Officials reviewed the play and declared the basket good. Memphis had a chance to inbound the ball, but with just a tenth of a second on the clock the Grizzlies had no time to get the ball in the basket.

"We were on him," Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins said of Paul's heroics. "What can you do? The kid made a tough shot. He's a great player. That's what great players do - they win games."

Paul finished with 24 points, nine assists and four rebounds for the Clippers. Blake Griffin added 21 points and eight rebounds.

Mike Conley led the Grizzlies with 28 points and nine assists. Gasol added 17 points and seven rebounds for Memphis, who trailed by 12 early in the fourth quarter.

Allen finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds, but he wasn't able to stop Paul - who scored eight straight points for the Clippers in the last four minutes.

"He did a great job of staying on me," Paul said of Allen's defense on the crucial last-second play.

"Every time I tried to get a little space to go left he ate the space up. I looked at the clock and it was 'All right, I've got to go.' Luckily, I made the shot."

Allen said he felt he let his teammates down, but he believed the Grizzlies - who fell to the Clippers in seven games in the first round last year - can turn the series around back home in Memphis.

Also on Monday, New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith was named the winner of the Sixth Man of the Year award as the top reserve in the 2012-13 NBA season.

Smith averaged 18.1 points and 5.3 rebounds while coming off the bench for all 80 games he appeared in.

He garnered 72 of a possible 121 first-place votes and tallied 484 points to easily beat Los Angeles Clippers guard and 2009-10 top reserve Jamal Crawford in voting by a panel of 121 sports writers and broadcasters.

Smith, a nine-year pro, led all league reserves in scoring, 30-point games (seven) and 20-point efforts (29), while his point total ranked second to NBA scoring champion Carmelo Anthony among members of the Atlantic Division champion Knicks.

Smith added 2.7 assists and 1.3 steals per game, playing a key role in New York's run to the second seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Crawford earned 31 first-place votes and 352 points, with Golden State's Jarrett Jack finishing third in the voting.

Agencies - Global Times