LeBron gettin' the job done

Tip-ins

Lakers: Dwight Howard nearly collided with NBA commissioner Adam Silver while leading the Lakers out of the locker room for the pregame warm-ups. ... The Lakers were 14 for 39 on 3-pointers, making them 59 for 166 in the series. Before this year, the Lakers' record for 3s in a finals series was 43 made and 125 attempts－both of which were surpassed this year in the first three games.

Heat: Point guard Goran Dragic (torn left plantar fascia) went through an on-court workout before the game with hopes of being able to play for the first time since the first half of Game 1, but was ruled out again shortly afterward. ... Robinson's first 3-pointer Tuesday was his 50th of the playoffs, meaning he and Jae Crowder are the first duo in Heat history with 50 postseason 3s apiece. They're the fourth teammates in NBA history to pull off that feat.

Lead story

This is the 36th time that a team has held a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Of the previous 35, the team with the lead has gone on to win the title 34 times－James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 becoming the exception when they won three straight games to defeat Golden State.

In 3-1 situations, the NBA Finals have ended in five games 51.4 percent of the time (18 instances), six games 40 percent of the time (14 instances) and seven games 8.6 percent of the time (three instances).

Rare half

The Lakers led 49-47 at halftime. It was just the third time in the last 26 NBA Finals games that neither team reached 50 points in the first 24 minutes. Tuesday's was the 1,140th game played this season and just the 35th occurrence of both teams scoring 49 or less by the break, which works out at 3.1 percent of the time.

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