MEMPHIS, Tenn.(AP) Rudy Gay scored 17 points, and Hakim Warrick added 14 points and eight rebounds Friday night as Memphis won its first game of the preseason with a 92-79 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats.

Reserve Quinton Ross added 13 points for Memphis (1-2), while rookie O.J. Mayo finished with 12 points on 5-of-17 shooting. Mike Conley added 10 points.

Jason Richardson led the Bobcats with 14 points, while Gerald Wallace finished with 13. Andre Brown had 12 points and nine rebounds for Charlotte (0-2).

Memphis led by as many as 17 points early in the second half and was still up by 15 early in the fourth quarter. But Memphis stopped running its offense, settling for jump shots and playing one-on-one and that allowed the Bobcats to pull within 85-79 with just over 4 minutes left.

But Warrick dunked, Conley added a 3-pointer, and Memphis rebuilt the lead to double digits and never let Charlotte get closer than 11 points the rest of the way.

Grizzlies center Darko Milicic, who missed the first two preseason games with a back strain, started and had two points, and rookie Darrell Arthur, the 27th overall pick in the draft, made his first appearance after nursing a right hamstring strain. Arthur finished with eight points and five rebounds in 16 minutes.

Nazr Mohammed was a late scratch for Charlotte because of a nagging left hamstring injury.

Charlotte, which was down 40-9 in the first quarter at Orlando on Tuesday night, had a better start against Memphis, but trailed 25-20 after the first quarter, primarily because the Grizzlies ran early and shot 69 percent.

Memphis led 48-39 at halftime with Mayo and Gay scoring 12 each. But both teams endured sloppy ball-handling with Charlotte committing 13 turnovers and Memphis 12.

The Grizzlies opened the second half with eight straight points to take a 17-point lead, their largest of the game.

Memphis used the advantage to carry a 77-66 lead into the fourth quarter.