PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Golden State Warriors have earned their fifth straight trip to the NBA Finals after beating the Portland Trail Blazers 119-117 in overtime of Game 4 of the Western Conference finals on Monday night.
This is the first time a team has made five straight Finals appearances since the Boston Celtics went 10 straight times, from 1957-66.
The Warriors made it happen on Monday night by coming back from a double digit second half deficit for the third straight game, this time crawling all the way back from a 17 point hole.