NBA finals Game 3: Golden State Warriors 100-116 Boston Celtics – live!

LIVE – Updated at 04:40

Rolling report: The Celtics won 116-110 over the Warriors in Game 3 to take a two-games-to-one lead in the NBA finals. Hunter Felt was watching.

Final thoughts

“I was born in ’98. That was way before my time,” Jayson Tatum says upon hearing his team get compared to the Magic Johnson/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Los Angeles Lakers.

Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum & Marcus Smart are the first trio to each have 20 pts, 5 rebs and 5 ast in a Finals game since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and Michael Cooper in 1984 pic.twitter.com/tsiPQ4E5gJ

Yes, this time around the younger team beat the more experienced team. The Celtics have the lead in the NBA Finals, but we know that the Warriors are capable of a counter-punch.

Game 4 will once again be in TD Garden on Friday night at 9:00 pm EST once again (at least it will be the weekend). The Guardian will continue to have live coverage of every game of the 2022 NBA Finals here at the Guardian but this will do us for today’s coverage. Thanks to everybody who followed along with today’s Game 3 liveblog, Ciao!

In a much closer game than the final score indicated, the Boston Celtics absorbed the Golden State Warriors’ best third quarter punch and have taken a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals.

Warriors 100-116 Celtics, FINAL

Do we really need play-by-play here? Well, nobody scores so that makes it rather easy to do. Listen, these guys haven’t played in ages. The clock hits triple-zeroes and that will do it.

The Boston Celtics have won Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

Warriors 100-116 Celtics, 2:00, fourth quarter

Warriors have emptied the bench, it’s better to keep their starters healthy. Celtics are not. It’s their first NBA Finals home game in over a decade. Brown gets to the line