The Warriors trailed by 13 points at halftime and by as many as 16 in the second half of Game 3 before mounting a comeback to beat the Trail Blazers on Saturday. The only other time Golden State won a postseason game after trailing by more than a dozen at the half was on May 18, 1975 in the first game of their NBA Finals sweep of the Washington Bullets. The Warriors had lost their previous 11 postseason games with halftime deficits like that in the decades since that 1975 Championship.
And yet, if you were thinking the events of Saturday night looked familiar, well, you weren’t wrong.