Tony Allen had his best game in this series, scoring 14 points for Memphis.

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Griffin missed a dunk in the first quarter, when Tony Allen and Ed Davis had Memphis' only two.

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Memphis guard Tony Allen's midrange shots stayed the same after ACL surgery, while former Orlando forward Pat Garrity's became slightly worse.

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His newest solo album is called Secret Agent, and it sounds like the most fully rounded version of Tony Allen Afrobeat he's ever made.

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Tony Allen had a postseason-best 19 points, and Jerryd Bayless had 16.

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After trailing by as many as 30 points early in the second half, the Grizzlies cut their deficit to 103-99 on Tony Allen's two free throws with 33 seconds left.

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It also features former Clash bassist Paul Simonon and the 67-year-old drummer Tony Allen who, as a member Fela Kuti's Nigerian funk band in the '70s, proved himself to be one of the greatest groove stokers in recorded history.

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By now, a fairly wide assortment of pop-music fans would know what I was talking about if I noted that, in the late 1960s, bandleader Fela Kuti invented a style called Afrobeat with the key collaboration of his drummer, Tony Allen.

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Work-life management experts Tony Schwartz, David Allen, and others have useful techniques for setting up routines to get more done.

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