In brief: Warriors rally in fourth for 2-0 series lead on Portland

NBA: Klay Thompson scored 27 points and gave Golden State its first lead of the game on a 3-pointer with 5:33 left, and the Warriors rallied to beat the Portland Trail Blazers 110-99 on Tuesday night in Oakland, California, for a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference semifinal series.

Draymond Green added 17 points, 14 rebounds, seven assists and four blocked shots in another win without injured MVP Stephen Curry, sidelined with a sprained MCL in his right knee.

Game 3 is Saturday in Portland, and the reigning MVP might be back for that one.

NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala’s two free throws at 7:25 trimmed the Blazers’ lead to 91-88 and Thompson’s 3 at 6:44 tied it, igniting the sellout crowd inside deafening Oracle Arena as the defending champions erased an early 17-point deficit.

Heat holds off Raptors in overtime: Goran Dragic scored 26 points, Dwyane Wade had seven of his 24 in overtime after Kyle Lowry’s halfcourt shot tied it at the buzzer, and the Miami Heat beat the host Toronto Raptors 102-96 in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Joe Johnson scored 16 points and Josh Richardson had 11. Hassan Whiteside had 17 rebounds for the Heat.

Game 2 is Thursday night in Toronto.

Lowry’s improbable 3-pointer from his own side of the halfcourt line capped Toronto’s six-point comeback in the final 20 seconds of regulation, but the Raptors couldn’t deliver in the extra session. Toronto went scoreless for the first 3:46 of overtime before DeMar DeRozan hit a jumper.

Varejao says no intent to trip Henderson: Golden State backup big man Anderson Varejao insists he didn’t deliberately trip Trail Blazers guard Gerald Henderson in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal playoff series. Yet after watching the replay, he understands it sure looked like he did it on purpose – which is what Henderson thought. Varejao said it looked worse than it was. The NBA ruled it a Flagrant 1 foul on Varejao.

Curry wins Magic Johnson Award: Stephen Curry has won the Magic Johnson Award, given by the Professional Basketball Writers Association to an NBA player who combines excellence on the court with cooperation with the public and media.

Curry led the NBA with 30.1 points per game and a record 402 3-pointers in leading the Golden State Warriors to a 73-9 record, best in league history.

The reigning MVP beat out teammate Draymond Green, Portland’s Damian Lillard, New York’s Carmelo Anthony and Atlanta’s Paul Millsap in voting by the PBWA, made up of approximately 175 writers and editors who cover the league on a regular basis.

The award was created in 2001 and named for Hall of Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson, whom the PWBA regards as “the ideal model for the award.”

Bosh travels to Toronto, stays inactive: Miami forward Chris Bosh is in Toronto for the Heat’s opening game of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Raptors but remains on the inactive list.

Bosh has expressed a desire to return to action after missing the final 29 games of the regular season and Miami’s first-round victory over Charlotte. The 11-time All-Star has not played since a blood clot was found in his left calf during February’s All-Star break in Toronto. It’s the second consecutive year Bosh’s regular season has ended because of a clot detected over All-Star weekend.

Refs admit missed call on Waiters: NBA referees say their missed foul on Oklahoma City’s Dion Waiters as he inbounded the ball was a play they had never seen before. The referees union also said on Twitter that they would incorporate the play into their training moving forward.

The play began a wild final sequence in the Thunder’s 98-97 victory over San Antonio on Monday in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals. Waiters elbowed the Spurs’ Manu Ginobili to create space to throw the inbounds pass, which the Spurs stole to start a fast break. San Antonio couldn’t score, leaving the series tied at 1-1. Referee Ken Mauer, the crew chief, said after the game that upon seeing a review of the play, there should have been an offensive foul on Waiters.

Boyle lifts Lightning over Islanders in OT

NHL: Brian Boyle scored at 2:48 of overtime to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 5-4 victory over the host New York Islanders for a 2-1 lead in their second-round series.

Nikita Kucherov tied it in the final minute of regulation, and Ryan Callahan, Victor Hedman and Vladislav Namestnikov also scored for the Lightning. Ben Bishop stopped 35 shots.

On the winning goal, the Lightning were on an odd-man rush and Hedman fired a shot from the left side that was wide, but the rebound came off the boards and right to Boyle in front at the right side of the goal and he tapped it in for the win.

Josh Bailey, back after missing the first two games of this series with an upper-body injury, had two goals, and Nick Leddy and Cal Clutterbuck also scored for the Islanders. Thomas Greiss finished with 36 saves.

Preds lead second round 2-1: Shea Weber scored the go-ahead goal and had an assist and the Nashville Predators beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 in Nashville, Tennessee, to pull within 2-1 in their Western Conference second-round series.

James Neal and Filip Forsberg each scored on the power-play, Colin Wilson had a goal, and Pekka Rinne made 26 saves for Nashville.

Patrick Marleau scored for the Sharks, who lost for the first time away from San Jose this postseason and first since a loss at Arizona on March 17.

Game 4 is Thursday night.

The Predators not only lost the first two in San Jose, but were facing the NHL’s best road team during the regular season. The Sharks also went 4-2 in Nashville in winning first-round series in both 2006 and 2007.

Nashville shut down the Sharks’ power play, killing four penalties after San Jose went 3 of 5 in the first two games.

Steen, Backes lead Blues: Alexander Steen and David Backes had two goals apiece and the St. Louis Blues’ defense put the clamps on the Dallas Stars in a 6-1 victory that put them up 2-1 in the second-round series.

Vladimir Tarasenko had a goal and two assists, Troy Brouwer had a goal and assist and Brian Elliott was strong when he needed to be for the Blues in their first lopsided triumph of the postseason. Their other five wins were decided by one goal.

The Blues finished two points behind Western Conference champion Dallas in the regular season and have control of the series heading into Game 4 Thursday night in St. Louis.

They scored four unanswered goals after Colton Sceviour gave Dallas the early advantage, three coming in a breakaway second period.

League suspends Letang: The Penguins will be without Kris Letang for Game 4 against Washington after the NHL suspended him one game after interfering with Washington’s Marcus Johansson early in Pittsburgh’s 3-2 win over the Capitals on Monday night.

The NHL Department of Player Safety ruled that Letang made “significant head contact” on Johansson well after the Capitals forward had released the puck during a sequence in the first period.

Nadal, Murray move to Masters third round

Miscellany: Rafael Nadal easily defeated Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3, 6-3 to reach the third round of the Madrid Masters, while Andy Murray advanced after a hard-fought 7-6, 3-6, 6-1 win over 37-year-old Radek Stepanek.

Nadal broke Kuznetsov’s serve once in the first set and twice in the second to secure the win in his opening match at the clay-court tournament that he has won twice in the last three seasons.

Rachel’s Valentina is 7-2 favorite in Kentucky Oats: Rachel’s Valentina is the 7-2 morning-line favorite in the $1 million Kentucky Oaks for 3-year-old fillies on Friday at Churchill Downs. The Oaks is the distaff companion event to the Kentucky Derby run the following afternoon.

Rachel’s Valentina drew post 11 with John Velazquez riding for trainer Todd Pletcher.