We're more talented with KD obviously.
Cleveland led 86-68 at halftime and were up by as many as 22.
Kyrie Irving is up to 21 points for the Cavs, while LeBron James has 15 and J.R. Smith 14 already. There's three more quarter of this stuff?
Cleveland has set an NBA Finals record with 49 points in the first quarter.
LeBron James was incerdible, with another triple-double of 31 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.
The record for any Finals quarter was 47, done by the Los Angeles Lakers in the third quarter against Boston on June 3, 1984. They'd compete, but the Warriors could run away with it in the second half.
The Cavs came out aggressive in a must-win game against the Warriors to stay alive. It could have been worse: The Cavs missed eight free throws in the quarter.
James sat down for just 34 seconds over the final 36 minutes of play.
So let that sink in: it took a historically great game from the Cavs and off nights from Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson for the Cavs to finally beat the Warriors.
Game 4 might have been the dumbest thing that has ever happened on an NBA Finals hardwood. Roughly 90 minutes before tipoff of Game 4 on Friday night, he offered a bit more insight.
The early 11-point lead was Cleveland's biggest lead yet in The Finals.
When Cleveland's locker room opened after the game, trainer Mike Mancias was stretching James over a medicine ball.
Irving was on the mark on 10 of 12 shots from the field at one point in the opening period, and he finished the half with 28 points for the second-highest point total by a player in the last 20 NBA Finals.
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Cleveland, of course, won Game 7 at Golden State a year ago; the Warriors won the crown in Game 6 at Cleveland in 2015.
This time, they did it in Cleveland. Game 4 of the NBA Finals airs at 9 p.m. on ABC.
"Hey, you know you can lose one", Beckham yelled out.
If the Warriors finish off a sweep, this would be the earliest start to the National Basketball Association offseason since the Boston Celtics beat the Houston Rockets for the title on June 8, 1986.
That is, except for a massive image of the Larry O'Brien Trophy, prominently displayed on the middle of the floor. Cleveland's season probably ends on Friday night with the indignity of a sweep.
The series also serves as a rubber match for the teams.
Meanwhile, in Cleveland, some vendors outside the Cavs' arena apparently are preparing for the likelihood that this is the last home game of the season. Instead, the Cavs put together what might be the single greatest Finals effort in one game.
Kevin Durant scored 35 points but the Warriors could never slow down the Cavs and missed their chance for the NBA's first ideal postseason.
The Cleveland Cavaliers know something about historic comebacks. They won a championship, and previous year, it was the greatest regular-season team we played, probably one of the best postseason teams that everybody's ever seen as well, but we were just able to overcome that, and they're playing like one of the best teams once again. The Warriors failed to crown a regular season in which they set a record with 73 wins. No team has come back from 3-0 in the playoffs.
"You can tell he knows this is his moment", Kerr said.
"Believeland is not going to give up", Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said, "and we're going to keep fighting". That may have something to do with the two of them being the among the NBA's best two or three players for the better part of the last decade.
"Then go on to the next game", Jefferson said, "and then go on to the next game and see what happens".
Steve Kerr hasn't talked to any of the old-timers who say their teams would have beaten his Golden State Warriors. As this was being sorted out, Todd Leebow, a friend of James who was sitting with the three-time champion's business partners, got involved in an argument with Golden State's bench and was asked to leave.
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