Curry takes the Warriors on his back and ties the NBA final against the Celtics

There was just over a minute left in the third quarter when Gary Payton II received the ball at the 3-point line.

He had time and he had a shot, but he was also around Stephen Curry, so he left him the ball and the place, why bother with anything else?

Payton got out of the way and the star of the Golden State Warriors hit his sixth triple of the night: 33 points had the point guard by then.

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The play sums up well what happened in the fourth game of the NBA finals, in which the Boston Celtics led the tie (2-1) and left with disappointment drawn on their faces.

The Warriors, who on Friday night was equivalent to saying "Curry", won (107-97) at the Celtics' court and snatched their dreams of an easy tie.

The next assault will be Monday in San Francisco.

Things seemed possible for a good part of the match for the Boston team, who arrived at the half with a slight advantage (five points) that they did not give up in the third quarter, and that it is already known that the third quarters are the specialty of the San Francisco team.

Despite the fact that the locals started those final minutes decisively, they could not find a way to get off the scoreboard in a sticky game, which was flat almost all the time, if it were not for Curry's acrobatics, who scored in positions more typical of a rhythmic gymnast than of the physical laws of basketball.

When in the fourth quarter he made the first of a series of free throws with which he closed his score to 40 points, some of the Celtics fans began to leave TD Chase Stadium.

They had done their part by cheering as loudly as the occasion deserved: it's the first time their team has brought home an NBA Finals in 12 years.

They even seemed capable of shutting down the Warriors' indomitable Draymon Green with their shouts, giving him a standing ovation designed to grate on his nerves.

But in the end Curry prevailed, who, rain or shine, does not usually fail: he has been the top scorer in the four games of the final so far, with 34, 29, 31 and 43 points respectively.

The Celtics, for their part, paid for their inexperience against a more experienced team at this stage of the finals.

Those from San Francisco played better the game of who blinks first.

After three games in the NBA final, the Boston Celtics and the San Francisco Golden State Warriors had such a good grasp of the measure, that the first two quarters of the match went in a tug-of-war in which the styles of both teams seemed the same thing: one attacked like the other and these defended like those.

At the first of the breaks they left with a difference of one point, and at the half, five ahead for the Celtics.

The next appointment is Monday at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

After the rounds of two consecutive games on each of the coasts, the tie now enters the alternation, game by game, between Boston and SanFrancisco

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