Warriors @ Cavaliers

Who will WIN this matchup?

Golden State Warriors (58-24)

@ Cleveland Cavaliers (50-32)

Current odds:

Golden State Warriors: (-175)

Cleveland Cavaliers: (+155)

• The line for this game is Golden State by 4.5 points.

• The Golden State Warriors aim to finish off a four-game sweep of Cleveland when they visit the Cavaliers in the NBA Finals on Friday. Golden State is striving to win its third title in four seasons as well as become the first team to sweep the best-of-7 finals since the San Antonio Spurs dispatched the Cavaliers in four games in 2007. The Warriors rode Kevin Durant’s 43-point outing to Wednesday’s 110-102 win in Game 3 and don’t plan to let up on the pedal after blowing a 3-1 lead to the Cavaliers two years ago. “You never know, crazy things that can happen, turn of events in a series that could take place,” Golden State forward Draymond Green told reporters. “So you have the opportunity to close out, you want to do that. So you come in, take full advantage of the opportunity in front of us.”

• The Cavaliers are the 14th team to fall behind 0-3 in the NBA Finals – the other 13 lost the series – and insist they aren’t going to roll over. “We’re going to keep fighting,” Cleveland center Tristan Thompson told reporters. “It’s the first team to four wins, right? We’re on our home floor. For ourselves and for our fans, we’ve got to go out there and give everything we’ve got.”

• Durant reiterated Thursday that he will return to Golden State next season – the apparent plan is to opt-out of his current two-year, $51 million deal and sign a richer one. He said there is a different feeling with the team in its second NBA Finals with him on the roster. “It’s just a different vibe because we’ve been through a season with each other already as champions, going through a whole season,” Durant said at a press conference on Thursday. “So we know exactly what we need to do in order for us to win. We wanted to do that, focus on that as much as possible. The emotions, and all that stuff, doesn’t really matter.”

• LeBron James could be playing his final game for Cleveland before entering free agency and he said Thursday that he was against veteran Dwyane Wade being traded when the club shuffled its roster at the trading deadline. James ran down the Golden State roster and mentioned all the stars and their exploits before sliding in a mention that his squad also has some talented players. “We’ve had an opportunity to win two of these games in this three-game series so far, and we haven’t come up with it,” James said in a press conference. “Obviously, from a talent perspective, if you’re looking at Golden State from their top five best players to our top five players, you would say they’re stacked better than us.”

• Warriors PG Stephen Curry had 11 points on 3-of-16 shooting in Game 3 after scoring 33 points and making an NBA Finals record nine 3-pointers in Game 2.

• Cleveland swingman Kyle Korver is averaging 1.3 points on 1-of-10 shooting in the series.

• Golden State swingman Andre Iguodala (left knee) scored eight points in 22 minutes in Game 3 in his first action of the series.