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Basketball: Thunder silenced as Warriors take it to game seven

Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder will battle it out tonight in Game Seven of the NBA Western Conference finals.

The Warriors tied the series 3-3 on Saturday night, thanks to Klay Thompson’s playoff-record 11 three-pointers and Steph Curry’s 29 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists.

“We’ve got a lot of belief and a lot of heart, and we’ve given ourselves a chance to win this series,” Curry said. “That’s all we could ask for. There’s obviously a lot of excitement but we still have one job to do.”

Heading into the game, much of the talk centreed around the poor outings from the Warriors, who were the favourites to win back-to-back play-off titles after setting the league’s regular-season record with 73 wins.

However, the Warriors had failed to get going in this series and entered this game trying to become the 10th team to overcome a 3-1 deficit.

It looked like it wasn’t to be their night, with Thunder leading for most of the night and ahead eight points going into the fourth quarter.

But Thompson kept his side in it, draining three-pointer after three-pointer and ended the fourth with 19 points to win the game.

“Steph told me before I went out in the fourth: ‘This is your time’,” Thompson said. “You know, put on a show out there and have fun.’ I took those words to heart and I just tried to be aggressive.”

The Warriors held the Thunder to 18 points in the fourth quarter to stay alive. They expect another tough battle in Game Seven.

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