golden state, which earned home-court advantage with setting the nba regular season wins record (73–9), jumped to a 2–0 lead in the series while recording the largest combined margin of victory (48) through two games in nba finals history. cleveland returned home and responded with a 120–90 win in game 3, but the warriors won game 4 to take a 3–1 series lead. the cavaliers won the next three games to become the first team in finals history to successfully overcome a 3–1 deficit. it also marked the first time since 1978 that game 7 was won by the road team.