Gray Questionable for Game 2

Gray badly turned his right ankle with 1:07 remaining. And the walking boot Gray was wearing, and the crutches that carried him from the dressing room onto the back of a flat-bed cart for the short ride across the street to the team hotel, indicated Gray will need every bit of the time between now and Wednesday night’s Game 2 tip off to rehabilitate.

“We just really had the mindset that we were playing against some big boys: Andrew Bynum, Pau Gasol, obviously a versatile big in Lamar Odom coming off the bench,” Gray said. “Especially me in my situation, it’s just kind of anticipating when Coach Williams is going to using me. I just wanted to make sure I was as ready as possible.

“My teammates did a great job putting me in good positions. ... (The bench) has been locking in all season. Coach has put a lot of pressure on us but given us the opportunity to go out and play freely. We were talking the whole first six, seven minuets how good the first team was doing. It got us an (eight)-point lead. We didn’t want to be the reason they came back or we let the team down.”

And the ankle?

“I’ve got a soft ball on the ankle right now,” Gray said. “We’ll do everything we can to get it ready to go on Wednesday.”