CAVALIERS 124, HEAT 87

Jarrett Allen scored 22 points, De’Andre Hunter added 21 and Cleveland handed Miami its worstever playoff loss for a 3-0 lead in their Eastern Conference first-round series.

Evan Mobley scored 19 and Max Strus added 18 for Cleveland, which got 13 points apiece from Ty Jerome and Donovan Mitchell.

Bam Adebayo scored 22 and Davion Mitchell added 16 for Miami. The worst Heat playoff loss, before Saturday, was a 36-point defeat in Game 3 of the 2013 NBA Finals at San Antonio.

That Heat team won an NBA title. This Heat team is on the brink of being swept.

It’s the 11th time that a Cavaliers team has taken a 3-0 lead in a best-of-seven series — the other 10 were all in the LeBron James eras in Cleveland, and they all ended in 4-0 sweeps.

THUNDER 117, GRIZZLIES 115

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 38 points and Oklahoma City advanced to the Western Conference semifinals by beating Memphis to complete a four-game sweep.

Jalen Williams added 23 points for the top-seeded Thunder, who led the NBA with a 68-14 record this season and became the first team to reach the second round.

The Grizzlies played without star guard Ja Morant, who bruised his left hip in a hard fall in Game 3. The Thunder erased a 29-point deficit after he left, the second-biggest comeback in a postseason game since detailed play-by-play began being kept in 1996-97.

WARRIORS 104, ROCKETS 93

Stephen Curry eventually found his shooting groove, finishing with 36 points, nine assists and seven rebounds to lead Golden State past Houston without Jimmy Butler for a 2-1 lead in their first-round playoff series.

Playoff Steph delivered while Playoff Jimmy became his biggest cheerleader on the bench. Buddy Hield had 17 points off the bench with five 3-pointers as the Warriors won their sixth straight Game 3 in the opening round. Gary Payton II scored 11 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter.

Curry has 4,053 career playoff points and passed Tony Parker (4,045) for 10th most in NBA history.