Warriors 110, Trail Blazers 99

The defending champions mounted a remarkable comeback without MVP Stephen Curry.

Next game, they might have him back and really get rolling.

Klay Thompson scored 27 points and gave Golden State its first lead of the game on a 3-pointer with 5:33 left, and the Warriors rallied to beat Portland on Tuesday night for a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference semifinal series.

"It started with how focused we were in that fourth," Thompson said. "We've been down and out before. ... We were just locked in on both sides of the ball. We can build on this game. That effort there in the fourth quarter is what it's going to take to beat this team."

Draymond Green added 17 points, 14 rebounds, seven assists and four blocked shots in another win without Curry, sidelined with a sprained MCL in his right knee and relished to coaching to help any way he could.

Game 3 is Saturday in Portland, and Curry could be in uniform.

Thompson's 3 with 6:44 remaining tied it, igniting the sellout crowd inside deafening Oracle Arena as the defending champions erased an early 17-point deficit.

"We hung in there," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. "We turned around what was a pretty bad game for us but we had enough time to get back."

Damian Lillard's 3 to beat the third-quarter buzzer put Portland ahead 87-76 entering the final 12 minutes —Golden State's largest deficit going into the fourth all playoffs.

For most of the night, the energized Blazers did everything the defending champions typically do on their impenetrable home court: making the zippy pass, setting the tone on the defensive end, crashing the boards, answering any threat with a big basket.

"We played three really good quarters. We showed we can compete with them," Blazers coach Terry Stotts said. "It got away from us in the fourth quarter. It's disappointing to lose a game you're competitive and you're in position to win in the fourth quarter. We've got to close it out. It was an opportunity to get a win on the road. We've got to learn from it."

Lillard had 25 points and six assists, and CJ McCollum added 22 points as Portland hit 13 3-pointers. The Blazers were also down 2-0 in the first round to the Clippers.

"Obviously Golden State is a different monster," Lillard said.

Shaun Livingston scored 14 points for his fifth double-digit performance during these playoffs filling in for Curry. Little-used Festus Ezeli contributed eight points and six rebounds down the stretch.

Thompson, coming off a career playoff-high 37 points in Sunday's 118-106 Game 1 win, shot 7 for 20 with five 3-pointers. Andre Iguodala made all five of his first-half shots for 11 of his 15 points to go with five rebounds and four assists, helping Golden State get back within 59-51 at the break.

The Blazers switched up defenders to swarm Thompson, from Allen Crabbe to Al-Farouq Aminu, Maurice Harkless and others.

Portland shot 66.7 percent in the first quarter to take a 34-21 lead — quite the opposite of when the Blazers trailed 37-17 after the first period two days earlier in a 118-106 loss.

So out of sync were the Warriors early that at one point Curry could be seen emphatically adding his input in the middle of the coaches' huddle and again to teammates.

Lillard and McCollum, who combined to shoot 13 for 43 in Game 1, went 17 for 39.

"We had an opportunity to steal one on the road. It hurts to go back in the locker room after playing so well for so long," Lillard said. "They played desperate."

The Warriors won their sixth straight at home against Portland, all by double figures for a total margin of victory of 89 points.

Ian Clark gave Golden State a lift late in the first half and produced five points in nearly 12 minutes.

The Blazers came out defending well from the tip unlike Game 1, as the Warriors missed eight of their first 10 shots and Portland took a 17-5 lead midway through the first quarter.

Andrew Bogut's two blocks gave him 65 in the playoffs, most in Warriors franchise postseason history.

Portland's 34 first-quarter points were the most allowed by Golden State this postseason.

Heat 102, Raptors 96 (OT)

It only counts as one win, though Miami had to work twice as hard to get it.

Goran Dragic scored 26 points, Dwyane Wade had seven of his 24 in overtime after Kyle Lowry’s halfcourt shot tied it at the buzzer, and the Heat beat Toronto on Tuesday night in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

“We had to win the game twice tonight,” Wade said.

Joe Johnson scored 16 points and Josh Richardson had 11. Hassan Whiteside had 17 rebounds for the Heat.

Game 2 is Thursday night in Toronto.

Lowry’s improbable 3-pointer from his own side of the halfcourt line capped Toronto’s six-point comeback in the final 20 seconds of regulation, but the Raptors couldn’t deliver in the extra session. Toronto went scoreless for the first 3:46 of overtime before DeMar DeRozan hit a jumper.

Dunks by DeMarre Carroll and Jonas Valanciunas made it 99-96 with just over 10 seconds to play. Toronto got the ball back after a Miami turnover on the inbounds play, but Wade stripped the ball from DeRozan and sealed it with a three-point play.

“D-Wade did a great job of reading the play and jumping toward the ball, trying to take the ball away from me,” DeRozan said.

Wade (3,638) moved into 16th place on the NBA’s playoff scoring list, passing Elgin Baylor (3,623). Scottie Pippen (3,642) is in 15th place.

Valanciunas had 24 points and 14 rebounds, and DeRozan added 22 points for the Raptors, who dropped to 1-9 in the opening game of a postseason series. Five of those defeats have come at home.

“Game 1, you’ve got to be on point,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “You can’t have some of the mistakes that we made, turning it over. We’d get stops and lose it back, not rotate quick enough in some of the situations.”

DeRozan connected on his first three field goal attempts of the game, then made only six of 19 the rest of the way.

Lowry also struggled, going scoreless in the first half and finishing 3 of 13 for seven points. The All-Star guard headed to Toronto’s practice gym on the upper level of Air Canada Centre to work on his shooting after the game.

“We know he’s not shooting the ball well,” Casey said. “He’s not making the shots that he normally makes. It’s just like a hitter, hitters go through slumps. He’s there.”

Wade saw the lighter side of Lowry’s 8-for-50 performance from 3-point range in the playoffs so far.

“Sounds like me in the regular season,” joked Wade, who didn’t make a 3 from late December until Game 6 of Miami’s first-round series against Charlotte. “He’s right on track to make some big 3s soon.”

Toronto’s Terrence Ross set a career playoff high with 19 points and Cory Joseph had 10.

Miami led 86-81 after a 3 by Dragic with 40 seconds left, but Toronto trimmed the deficit to 89-86 on a 3 by Ross with 6.5 seconds remaining.

Luol Deng threw the ball away on the resulting inbounds play and Ross was fouled. He made the first but missed the second, and Whiteside was fouled as he grabbed the rebound. Whiteside missed the first but made the second, giving Miami a three-point edge with 3.3 seconds to go.

Lowry then was given time and space by the Heat to let go his long-range attempt and it went through for his first made 3 in six attempts, sparking a wild celebration in front of the Toronto bench.

“I unfortunately had a very good look at it,” Wade said. “I’m looking at the ball and I’m like ‘No way, this is not about to happen.’”

Wade went down clutching his right knee after the botched inbounds play that put Ross on the line, but stayed in.

“I hit the inside of my knee on the floor, on the bone,” he said. “I’m sure it will be bruised but it’ll be fine.”

Whiteside strained his right knee when he slipped and fell with 4:54 left in the first quarter. He limped to the bench and left for the locker room but returned at 9:01 of the second.

“That was scary,” Wade said. “He went down nasty.”

NBA: Five incorrect non-calls at end of Spurs-Thunder game

The NBA said Tuesday there were five incorrect non-calls on the wild final sequence in San Antonio, including a foul on Oklahoma City’s Dion Waiters that referees earlier had already acknowledged they missed.

The league agreed with the refs that Waiters should’ve been whistled for knocking Manu Ginobili back with his elbow to create space to throw an inbounds pass, but also ruled in its Last 2 Minute report that Ginobili first committed a delay-of-game violation by stepping on the sideline as he was defending.

The inbounds play began a frenzied final 13.5 seconds in the Thunder’s 98-97 victory over San Antonio on Monday in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals. The Spurs ended up stealing Waiters’ pass to Kevin Durant to start a fast break but couldn’t score, leaving the Western Conference semifinal tied at 1-1.

Referee Ken Mauer, the crew chief, said after the game that upon seeing a review of the play, there should have been an offensive foul on Waiters.

On Tuesday, the referees union wrote on Twitter that it had never seen the play before and would incorporate it into its training moving forward.

“Waiters foul on Ginobili was the worst missed call in playoff history,” Hall of Famer Magic Johnson wrote on Twitter after the game.

But the problems didn’t stop there.

The league determined that the Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard and Patty Mills grabbed and held Thunder players, affecting their movement and ability to get open to catch the inbound pass.

Once the Spurs came up with it, Mills ended up getting a jumper from the corner that missed. The Spurs couldn’t get off a clean attempt on the offensive rebound, and the league determined that was because the Thunder’s Serge Ibaka grabbed LaMarcus Aldridge’s jersey and affected his attempt.

Had that been called, Aldridge — who scored 41 points and made all 10 free throws — would have attempted two shots from the line to win the game.

Game 3 is Friday in Oklahoma City.

Curry wins pro basketball writers’ Magic Johnson Award

Stephen Curry has won the Magic Johnson Award, given by the Professional Basketball Writers Association to an NBA player who combines excellence on the court with cooperation with the public and media.

Curry led the NBA with 30.1 points per game and a record 402 3-pointers in leading the Golden State Warriors to a 73-9 record, best in league history.

The reigning MVP beat out teammate Draymond Green, Portland’s Damian Lillard, New York’s Carmelo Anthony and Atlanta’s Paul Millsap on Tuesday in voting by the PBWA, made up of approximately 175 writers and editors who cover the league on a regular basis.

The award was created in 2001 and named for Hall of Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson, whom the PWBA regards as “the ideal model for the award.”