The NBA Finals: 24 calls and non-calls that went the Cavs’ way the third quarter of Game 3

-Or- if Mike Breen loves Australia so much, maybe he should move there.

By Andrew Pridgen

Game three in attention-starved Cleveland—where they literally used 2 million Bic lighters to make it look like the city had non-vacant buildings and moving cars on the blimp cutaways—was all about four things:

1. LeBron James: Because LeBron James battling through more adversity than a kid in an arcade with no quarters = big ratings.
2. ESPN’s Mike Breen wanting to go Down Under on Matthew Dellavedova
3. Cold, then luke-warm, then hot Steph Curry.
4. The third quarter.

Below, a possession-by-possession recount of the third whence the Warriors went down 20 points late in the quarter before opening the fourth with eight straight thanks to Andre Iguodala, Leandro Barbosa and David Lee.

More on Lee, who hadn’t even played in the first two games of the finals, in a moment.

Calls or non-calls that went the Cavs’…