CLEVELAND — Kevin Durant pushed the Golden State Warriors to dynasty’s doorstep.

LeBron James could be in the exit door.
Durant scored 43 points, draining a long 3-pointer in the final minute to cap his magnificent performance, along with the Warriors beat James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, 110-102, in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night to move within a victory of a sweep, their second straight title and third tournament in four decades.
And Cleveland may be down to one last game with James, who listed his 10th triple-double in the finals. The three-time winner can opt from his $35.6 million contract and also examine free agency this summer, and it can be time for the 33-year-old to find a team capable of beating the Warriors.
These Cavs can not figure out it.
CBSSports.com’s Kyle Boone writes,”There will be endless banter about where free-agent-to-be LeBron James decides to sign if he chooses to leave Cleveland. But one destination, the Los Angeles Lakers, has been the most discussed landing spot for the superstar for quite a while now.”
Together with the Cavs down 103-100, Durant stood defiantly and almost motionless after falling his 33-footer – nearly from precisely the same spot from where he hit one in Game 3 last season – and effectively ended the fourth consecutive finals matchup between two teams that have gotten to know each other well since 2015.
After Durant scored, Stephen Curry and Draymond surrounded Durant and cried in their teammate, who calmly walked toward the seat.
“I tried to only stay in the zone,” Durant said, acknowledging he was worried the Cavs could still come back.
Durant said the similarity with last year’s shot – a second which helped establish his first championship – did not happen to him.
“No, not at all,” he said of this contrast. “I only took the photo.”
There was nothing that the Cavs could perform.
“It was like deja vu watching him hit that shot again,” Cavs forward Kevin Love said.
Golden State will now have four opportunities to wrap up its title beginning with Game 4 on Friday night. The Warriors are trying to combine a select list of groups to win three championships in four years.
James scored 33 points and Kevin Love additional 20 for the Cavs, who have fallen into the hole where no team has ever arose. Cleveland came back from a 3-1 deficit to stun the Warriors in the 2016 finals, but that was Durant was in Oklahoma City and James needed another supporting cast.
“We had our chances,” James said. “You can not make mistakes. They are not going to beat themselves.”
The Warriors won even though a 3-of-16 shooting operation from Curry, who did come up big down the stretch as the Cavs were hoping to salvage their time.
Durant, that tilted this rivalry toward the West Coast when he signed with the Warriors as a free agent before last year, was brilliant from the start. He helped offset a rough night for Curry, who made a finals-record nine 3-pointers in Game 2, but was just 1 of 10 from behind the arc and did not score his second field goal until there were under three minutes left.
Curry’s scoop shot put up the Warriors 98-97 and defensive pro Andre Iguodala, who didn’t play Games 1 or two because of a knee injury, came up with a sneak under the basket. Curry finally murdered a 3 and afterwards James matched him with a long shot, Iguodala drove the lane for a thundering dunk.
Moments later, Durant delivered his dagger to silence Cleveland’s audience.
“The shot clock was running down, I was pretty much out, I only wanted to get a look,” Durant said. “I did not wish to run there and take a bad shot, drop on the ground and they got numbers moving the other way so I opted to pull up”
James made a layup to pull the Cavs within four, it was too little too late since the Warriors shut out it and beat Cleveland for its fourth straight time in finals games.
With JaVale McGee acquiring three point-blank shots at the rim, the Warriors opened the third quarter with a 9-3 spurt and it wasn’t long before they took their first lead on Curry’s two free throws.
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