Durant's Mom Celebrates Game 3 NBA Finals Victory: "They Wouldn't Take It"

For most of the night, Durant was a virtual sidekick.

The Warriors kept their air of invincibility intact with a 118-113 Game Three victory that puts them on the brink of their second championship in three seasons.

Curry will get a chance to atone for his sub-par performance on Monday when the best-of-seven series shifts to Oakland with the Warriors still holding a commanding 3-1 lead. "He's right there. He wants to get it done".

Both teams, James stressed, played by the rules.

Look, LeBron is the best player in the world, and unless there is a 6-foot-8-inch alien that handles the ball like Allen Iverson, has a jump shot like Steph Curry and a post game like Hakeem Olajuwon, he's the best player in the universe, but that being said, he can't do it alone, and even with Kyrie Irving doing his best Scottie Pippen, the Golden State Warriors with Kevin Durant are who we thought they were. But NBA superstar Lebron James, a hometown hero in Cleveland, led his team to three consecutive wins, giving the city its first sports championship in 62 years.

It's easy to say this was exactly what Durant, a former MVP and four-time scoring champ, envisioned when he made the career-altering decision to sign with Golden State.

One reason for the Warriors' dominant playoff run was the acquisition of Durant in the offseason.

The most honest words uttered so far in these finals came from Cavs guard Kyrie Irving who said: "We see everything, I'll be sitting up here lying (if I said) we didn't see it".

"I didn't hear it, but some of the other guys heard it and told me that they (Warriors) wanted to celebrate on our floor once again and they wanted to spray champagne in our locker rooms", James said after the game. "The Warriors have championship DNA but we do as well".

But it comes by recalling the pain of last year's finals.

No team has escaped a 3-0 deficit to win an NBA playoff series but the Cavs made the greatest NBA Finals comeback past year from 3-1 down to beat the Warriors.

"So that's what you want to do", James said.

Durant was heavily criticized for not sticking it out with Westbrook and the Thunder, the franchise with which he played his first nine years. If Durant gets that ring, the narrative will change.

James called his situation in Miami "totally different" because the Heat had to create the cap space and clear their roster to sign him and Bosh.

After winning Games One and Two by a combined 41 points at home, the Warriors had to scrap for all 48 minutes to take down the Cavs, who will need a similar effort to avoid being swept by a team with few weaknesses.

Up 3-0 in the series, the Warriors can win their second title in three seasons and become the first team in National Basketball Association history to go through the playoffs without a loss with a win in Game 4 Friday night in Cleveland.

In addition, the Warriors have not lost a game since April 10. It would be a fitting ending to what has been a remarkable season, and the culmination of everything this team was supposed to be from the moment Kevin Durant chose to join the core of a roster that had already won 73 regular season games a season ago last July.

"It wasn't our smartest game that we played all year, but it was maybe our toughest". "And we have had some good fortune, too". "But that team, they knew what they were about".