2018 NBA Playoffs Round 1: San Antonio Spurs Vs Golden State Warriors Game 2, Live Scores & Updates

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.@KlayThompson couldn't miss in the fourth quarter with 16 points! 🔥

📊: 31 PTS | 5-8 3PT pic.twitter.com/J7w540icFF
— NBA TV (@NBATV) April 17, 2018

Game-clinching stat from the game:

3-point shooting: Warriors (15-of-31, 48.4%) - Spurs (4-of-28, 14.3%)

Biest performers from the game:

Klay Thompson: 31 points, 5 assists 12-20 FG's
Kevin Durant: 32 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists

LaMarcus Aldridge: 34 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists, 11-of-21 FG's.

FINAL WHISTLE!

Warriors win 116-101 and become the first team to take a 2-0 series lead in the 2018 NBA Playoffs.

In garbage time, Spurs make a couple of buckets to reach 100 points.

Cook gets a 3 to go! Just adding insult to injury.

Both teams clear their benches.

TIMEOUT called by the Warriors and this game looks to be done.

Lead now 16 (97-113) for the Warriors with 2 minutes to go!

IGGY for 3!

Spurs not giving up. They get 3 FT's courtesy of Mills but Iggy strikes right back with an alley-oop from Green!

THOMPSON! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Corner 3! He has 16 points in the fourth, 31 for the game.

KD gets fouled on the fastbreak attempt. He makes both and on the other end Mills drives on Looney and gets it to go.

Green misses a 3 and on the other end Spurs turn it over on an over-ambitious fastbreak attempt.

Manu to Aldridge with the pick-and-roll get one to go.

Flagrant 1 called on Green. Spurs get two free throws and the possession. Bertans makes one of two.

Draymond Green with the elbow on Davis Bertans. pic.twitter.com/orpZbevuTh
— RealGM (@RealGM) April 17, 2018

Red-hot Thompson gets a mid-range jumper to go but all attention is on the replay, where Green seems to have made an hostile act on Davis Bertans - elbow to the face.

THOMPSON YET AGAIN!

11 in the 4th!

Klay is heating up 🔥#DubNation pic.twitter.com/MLzh1GUBJu
— NBA (@NBA) April 17, 2018

Spurs turn it over with an Aldridge travel.

Thompson gets another one to go, this time a 3! Lead back up to 12.

Warriors call TIMEOUT!

What a game by Aldridge. He hooks one over Green and cuts the leads under single digits to 9.

Mills gets one to go. Both teams trading buckets now, and it's not helping the Spurs.

Silky smooth jumper from KD on the other end.

Manu! Drives in for another layup as the shot clock nears expiration.

WOW! An off-balance jumper goes for Thompson. He has 23 points and the Warriors lead up again at 13!

The @warriors are feeling it! 👌 pic.twitter.com/8Yczu2JZqw
— NBA TV (@NBATV) April 17, 2018

Mills gets another one to go off of the Spurs' ball movement. TIMEOUT called by the Warriors.

LA hustles in the paint and gets one to go. Spurs still trail by 14.

This time, Quinn Cook with a 3! Off the miss, Warriors run in transition and get the corner 3!

Lead now in double digits, 12!

On the other end, Green gets a 3 to go!

Shake-and-back by Mills, knocks down the jumper on Draymond Green.

West is headed back to the locker room.

He seems ok, is standing in the timeout.

Spurs with another empty possession but what's worse David West comes up hobbling. Seems to have twisted his left ankle.

Klay has scored the last 6 points to give the Dubs their largest lead of the game 🔥 (@NBCSAuthentic) pic.twitter.com/NqOduoY6O3
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) April 17, 2018

TIMEOUT called by the Spurs!

KLAY THOMPSON! 🔥🔥🔥

He gets another jumper to go. That's a 6-0 run all by himself.

Warriors beginning to run away with this one.

Thompson gets his two free throws and then on the following possession gets a mid-range jumper to go.

That's two free-throws and the possession.

It's a clear-path foul!

Warriors' fastbreak under review to check whether it was a clear-path foul

Draymond Green gets his first goal to start the fourth, via an assist from Thompson. On the other end, he fouls Gasol.

Fourth quarter underway!

Last 4:30 minutes of the third quarter, Warriors go on a 14-8 run. Another huge third-quarter for them, outscoring the Warriors 33 to 22.