CLEVELAND -- The NBA Finals have reached Game 3, and the Warriors surely know by now anything less than their best won’t be good enough.
The defending champions will be lugging a four-game losing streak in Game 3s when they enter Quicken Loans Arena Wednesday night to face the Cavaliers, who have not beaten the Warriors since, well, Game 3 of the 2015 Finals.
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The Warriors, who won Games 1 and 2 by a combined 48 points -- an NBA record margin for the first two games of a Finals -- have become painfully aware that they’ve had tremendous difficultly in the first road game of each playoff series.