NBA 2010-2011 Season

Derek Fisher broke down the court after yet another miss by Ray Allen. Nothing between him and the basket, and nothing—not even three hard-charging Celtics—was going to keep the Los Angeles Lakers guard from finishing off a Game 3 victory.

A hard foul from all three pursuing Celtics sent Fisher sprawling to the floor, but not before he laid in his fifth basket of the fourth quarter and converted the three-point play to help the Lakers beat Boston 91-84 and take a 2-1 lead in the NBA finals.

“Just Derek being Derek,” said Kobe Bryant, who scored 29 points. “He makes big plays all the time. He never ceases to amaze me.”

Bryant had 25 points after three quarters, but he did not score for the first 10 minutes of the fourth. That’s when Fisher took over, adding four key baskets after Boston winnowed a 17-point first-half lead to one point and the Lakers regained home-court advantage they had lost when the Celtics took Game 2 in Los Angeles.

Game 4 of the NBA Finals 2010 is Thursday night in Boston.

[Yahoo Sports]