The Latest on the NBA Finals from Wednesday’s Game 3 (all times local):

11:35 p.m.

Kevin Durant scored a playoff career-high 43 points Randy Moss Jersey , including a long clinching 3-pointer, Stephen Curry ended a nightmarish night with five straight to give Golden State the lead for good, and the Warriors took a 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals with a 110-102 victory over Cleveland.

”The shot clock was running down, I was pretty far out, I just wanted to get a look,” Durant said of his long 3-pointer. ”I didn’t want to run there and shoot a bad shot, fall on the ground and they got numbers going the other way so I decided to pull up.”

Curry shot just 3 for 16 but he made a layup with the Warriors down one and followed with his only 3-pointer of the game for a four-point lead with a little more than 2 minutes remaining.

The Warriors have a 3-0 lead for the second straight year. They finished the Cavaliers off in five games in 2017.

LeBron James had 33 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, but his Cavaliers will have to become the first team to climb out of a 3-0 hole in the NBA Finals.

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11:15 p.m.

LeBron James is carrying the Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, as usual. Rodney Hood is helping, which is unexpected.

Hood continues to provide James with solid support as Golden State leads Game 3 94-93 midway through the fourth quarter.

Out of the rotation of late, Hood has three baskets in the final period and 15 points off the bench. James leads the Cavaliers with 26 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds.

Kevin Durant has 38 points for the Warriors, who are trying to win with next to nothing from Stephen Curry. He has four points on 1-for-14 shooting

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11 p.m.

Kevin Durant has Golden State a quarter away from a 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals.

The Warriors have an 83-81 edge heading into the final period, surging ahead with one of their patented third-quarter runs even while Stephen Curry continues to struggle.

But Durant has been brilliant Brandon Fusco Jersey , with 34 points, 13 rebounds and five assists. That has more than compensated for Curry’s 1-for-11 outing, including 0 for 7 from 3-point range.

LeBron James has 21 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Cavaliers, who were outscored 31-23 in the third.

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10:35 p.m.

Good news for the Cavaliers: They finally got a free throw attempt, after LeBron James’ basket early in the second half.

Bad news for the Cavaliers: Golden State has all the other points in the third quarter.

The Warriors opened the third quarter with an 11-3 spurt to take a 63- 61 lead.

James was fouled while scoring after Cleveland didn’t attempt a free throw in the first half, when it led by as many as 13 points.

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10:15 p.m.

Cleveland has a 58-52 halftime lead in Game 3 of the NBA Finals that would be much bigger if not for Kevin Durant.

Durant scored 24 points, the only Warriors player in double figures in a foul-plagued, poor-shooting first half for Stephen Curry.

LeBron James has 14 points, nine assists and six rebounds, and he’s getting more help than his counterpart Durant. Kevin Love had 15 points and 10 rebounds, J.R. Smith scored 10 points, and Rodney Hood made a nice contribution with six.

Cleveland led by as much as 13 in a half where Curry committed three fouls and was 1 for 8 from the field.

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10 p.m.

LeBron James is on. Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson are way off.

James is up to 14 points, six assists and five rebounds midway through the second quarter, leading Cleveland to a 44-34 advantage. The Cavaliers also are getting a strong performance from J.R. Smith Drew Brees Jersey , with 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting.

Curry is just 1 for 8, missing all five 3-pointers, a game after making an NBA Finals-record nine 3s. Thompson, his backcourt mate, is 1 for 6.

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9:40 p.m.

Cleveland’s strong start was almost entirely erased, thanks largely to Kevin Durant.

The 2017 NBA Finals MVP had 13 points and was 4 for 4 from the field as Golden State cut a 12-point deficit down to 29-28 after one quarter. Durant also grabbed all of the Warriors’ seven rebounds.

That helped Golden State overcome a combined 2-for-9 start for Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson. Curry also picked up two fouls.

Andre Iguodala entered midway through the period for his debut in this series and made his lone shot. LeBron James had six points and five assists for the Cavaliers.

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9:30 p.m.

The Cavaliers quickly made seven of their first 13 shots – and throw out one of the misses, because it was on purpose.

LeBron James’ pass to himself off the backboard for a slam dunk was the early highlight as Cleveland raced to a 16-4 lead and are up 22-14 in the first quarter.

The 12-point margin represented the biggest lead of the series for the Cavaliers, who were ahead by 11 in Game 1.

J.R. Smith and Kevin Love both made 3-pointers and scored five points in the strong start.

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9:10 p.m.

JaVale McGee remains in the starting lineup even though Andre Iguodala is available for Golden State, which is trying for a 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals for the second straight year.

The Warriors could become the 14th team to win the first three games of the NBA Finals. All of the previous 13 have won the series.

The Cavaliers are used to being in this position. This is the fourth time in their five NBA Finals appearances that they’ve come home to host Game 3 staring at a 2-0 deficit.

They are the last team to get swept in the finals, dropping four straight to San Antonio in 2007.

McG A day after he returned to work from a five-week suspension, Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim apologized to the organization, the team's fans and "most of all" his family for the DUI arrest that forced his absence.

"It's an honor and privilege to work in the National Football League" and the Cardinals organization. "I failed to live up to the standards and expectations and I'm sorry," he said at a news conference Wednesday at team headquarters.

Keim said his five weeks away from the game, just as training camp was beginning, have "been torture."

"The two things in my life that I love the most are my family and football. I put both of those things in a major disadvantage and tough place Doug Flutie Jersey ," he said. "To be away from the people I care about, the organization that I love so much, was extremely difficult. But at the same time I don't know that it was a bad thing to be able to take that time to self-evaluate and to get stronger and grow as a man."

Keim was arrested July 4 in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler a short distance from his home. He pleaded guilty to extreme DUI on July 17, the same day he was suspended from his job by Cardinals President Michael Bidwill and fined $200,000.

Keim's voice broke with emotion when he talked about the impact the incident had on his family.

"After the reports came out, my 12-year-old son was texting his buddy," Keim said, "and he said, 'They keep showing your dad over and over again on TV. I'm so sorry he's having to go through that.' My son said, 'I'm not. He shouldn't have been doing it.' And my son was right and I don't think there's any feeling that's worse, if you feel like you let your children down."

Keim was asked if he felt that, beyond this one incident, he thinks he has a problem with alcohol.

"Going back and looking at behaviors and going through all the different steps that I went through, I think we all would be able to take advantage at some point of our lives of a self-evaluation process," he said. "I don't want to get too deep into it and personal but I can tell you that coming away from this that this has made me a better man."

Keim said his "No. 1 takeaway" from the experience "is you are held accountable for all your actions in life."

"I'm in a leadership position in this organization Phillip Gaines Jersey ," he said. "Looking back on it, it's so humbling. You think about you go through the draft process and you look for guys who have great character. We talk about it all the time, the person vs. the player. I made a major poor decision. It's not a mistake, it's a poor decision and it's humbling. I'm very remorseful."

Keim is entering his 20th year working for the Cardinals, the last six as general manager.

He and first-year coach Steve Wilks embraced as Keim left the interview room following the GM's news conference.

"This organization, as Michael has stated, does not condone that kind of behavior," Wilks said. "And Steve has accepted the consequences, he's dealt with it in the right way. I can't commend him enough in how he has handled this situation. He spoke to the organization yesterday, he spoke to our players this morning.

"He's learned from this, he's grown from this. We have embraced him. He is a part of our family and we're excited to have him back."

Veteran safety Antoine Bethea said he went through a DUI.

"So I understand what he's going through," Bethea said. "It's definitely a learning experience. So for the guys that were sitting in the audience listening to him, it was definitely a teaching moment. You can learn from other people's mistakes."

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