The 13th-year veteran is no stranger to coming off the bench - of his 813 NBA appearances, just 399 have seen him on the floor to start the game, and he won the league's Sixth Man of the Year Award for his stellar work with the Atlanta Hawks' second unit during the 2009-10 season.
Twelve of Crawford's game-high 29 points came in the fourth quarter, including five in a 90-second stretch that pushed L.A.'s lead from three to eight and put the Grizzlies out of reach, salting away a 101-92 opening-night win. debut, which saw him hit 10 of his 14 field-goal attempts and act as an offensive game-changer in his 30 minutes off the Clipper bench. There was quite a bit of seemingly effortless explosion in Crawford's L.A.
