AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — LeBron James had 20 points and 13 rebounds, and Kyrie Irving made a pair of big 3-pointers down the stretch to help the Cleveland Cavaliers move within a game of a first-round sweep with a 101-91 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Friday night.

Irving scored 26 points for Cleveland, which overcame a gritty effort by the Pistons in Detroit’s first home playoff game since 2009. Andre Drummond scored 17 points for the Pistons, but Detroit fell behind toward the end of the third quarter and a late rally came up short.

The Cavs lead the series 3-0, with Game 4 coming up Sunday night.

The Pistons have lost 11 straight playoff games against Cleveland, and they’ve lost nine in a row overall in the postseason.

Down by nine in the fourth, Detroit went on an 8-0 run, forcing the Cavs to call a timeout. Irving responded with a 3-pointer, and J.R. Smith added one of his own to make it 95-90. Irving made it an eight-point game with a 3-pointer in the final minute.

Cleveland methodically built a 79-73 lead after three quarters, and after a three-point play and a 3-pointer by James early in the fourth, the Cavs were up by nine. It was 87-86 after Detroit’s run, but the 3s by Irving and Smith helped Cleveland hold on.

SPURS 96, GRIZZLIES 87: Kawhi Leonard scored 32 points, and San Antonio won at Memphis to take a 3-0 lead in their Western Conference first-round series.

The Spurs now are a win away from their ninth postseason series sweep overall and third against Memphis. They finished the game on a 13-6 run in the final 3:41. Leonard, the two-time defensive player of the year, scored 13 points in the fourth quarter and shot 11 of 22 for the game, including 6 of 9 from 3-point range.

Zach Randolph led Memphis with 20 points and 11 rebounds.

Game 4 is Sunday.

NOTES

GRIZZLIES: Coach Dave Joerger said rookie forward Jarell Martin will be out “quite a while” because of an injured left foot.

TRAIL BLAZERS: Guard CJ McCollum won the NBA’s Most Improved Player award in his first season as a starter, after he more than tripled his scoring average to 20.8 points in his third season.

ROCKETS: The NBA said Houston’s James Harden should have been given an offensive foul for pushing Golden State’s Andre Iguodala before his winning shot Thursday night in Game 3 of the first-round playoff series.

The Rockets trailed by a point when Harden dribbled down the court and pushed Iguodala before stepping back for the shot with 2.7 seconds left that gave Houston a 97-96 win and cut the Rockets’ series deficit to 2-1.

The finding was announced in the NBA’s report on the final two minutes. The report also found four other incorrect calls in the last two minutes, including the failure to call a foul on Golden State’s Draymond Green when he threw Michael Beasley to the ground as Houston was inbounding the ball with a second remaining.