By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Stephen Curry scored 31 points, Andrew Wiggins added 27 and the Golden State Warriors beat the Dallas Mavericks 109-100
for a 3-0 lead in the Western Conference finals.
Klay Thompson scored 19 with a pair of big fourth-quarter 3-pointers as the Warriors moved within a victory of a return to the NBA Finals, three years after the end of a run of five consecutive trips that yielded three championships.
Golden State, which swept Portland in its most recent West finals in 2019 before Toronto won the title, goes for the sweep in Game 4 on Tuesday in Dallas. No team has rallied from 3-0 down to win an NBA playoff series.
Luka Doncic scored 40 and beat the first-quarter buzzer with a 32-footer.
However, Reggie Bullock and German Maxi Kleber, two long-range specialists for Dallas, missed all 12 of their 3s combined and were 0-15 overall. Both went scoreless, offsetting Spencer Dinwiddie’s 26 points off the bench.