Klay Thompson scored 30 points with eight 3-pointers, Golden State limited Anthony Davis while allowing LeBron James 23 points, and the defending champion Warriors evened their Western Conference semifinal with the Los Angeles Lakers at one game apiece with a 127-100 win Thursday night.

Stephen Curry added 20 points and 12 assists as Splash Brother Thompson shined to help Golden State make 21 more 3-pointers — giving the Warriors an NBA record for most in the first two games of a playoff series at 42. James' Cavaliers hit 40 against Atlanta in the 2016 second round.

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Coach Steve Kerr switched things up and inserted JaMychal Green into the starting lineup for Kevon Looney, who had a career-high 23 rebounds in Game 1 but has been dealing with an illness. Kerr aimed to give a different look with scoring options and perhaps more free-throw chances by going hard at Davis in the paint — where Golden State got thoroughly outplayed in a 117-112 loss in the opener.

Thompson's basket with 7:48 left in the third gave Golden State its biggest lead at 82-64 and the Warriors rolled from there. The Warriors had more fast-break points and points in the paint. JaMychal Green matched his playoff career high with 15 points, while Draymond Green contributed 11 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists after insisting he had to get more aggressive.

The best-of-seven series shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Saturday.

James shot 6 for 8 in the first with a pair of 3s for 14 points as the Lakers led 33-26. He retrieved a loose ball and let it fly for a pretty 3 with 7:47 before halftime but the Warriors were too much.

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Davis followed up his brilliant Game 1 performance — 30 points, 23 rebounds, five assists and four blocked shots and 11-for-19 shooting — with 11 points while shooting 5 for 11, seven rebounds, four assists and three blocks.

Golden State outscored the Lakers 84-47 over the second and third quarters — recording two 40-point quarters in the same playoff game for the first time in franchise history.

Looney received huge roars as he came off the bench for his first action with 3:41 left in the first. He grabbed eight rebounds and scored six points playing just less than 12 minutes.

Kerr was hardly worried ahead of Game 2, pointing to how Golden State lost Game 1 of the NBA Finals at home to Boston last year before winning it all.

The Warriors also rallied from a 2-0 deficit in their first-round series to beat Sacramento, the first defending champion to ever do so.

KLAY'S DAY

Thompson shot 11 for 18 and 8 of 11 from deep. His 19 points in the first half were his most in a postseason contest since he scored 21 in Game 6 against the Rockets in 2019.

KEY SEQUENCE

The Warriors challenged an offensive foul call on Andrew Wiggins with James defending at the 2:50 mark of the second quarter. The call was overturned and a block assessed to James, and a Lakers assistant received a technical during the review process — and the Warriors converted all three free throws to lead 60-50 before Thompson’s 3 the next time down.

TIP-INS

Lakers: James was -27 through three quarters. The only time he had a worse plus-minus through three in a playoff game was Game 1 of a second-round series against the Pistons in 2006. ... In a big change from Game 1, the Lakers didn't take their first free throws until 1:03 before halftime and their four attempts matched their second-fewest in a first half this season.. ... Coach Darvin Ham challenged his players to keep sprinting back on defense to curtail the Warriors' speed and ability to fly down the floor. He also played Davis and James longer minutes in the series opener than planned - nearly 44 for Davis and 40 for James.

Warriors: Moses Moody added 10 points and seven rebounds off the bench and Gary Payton II seven points and five boards as Golden State controlled the glass all game. ... JaMychal Green earned his first playoff start since April 26, 2019, for the Clippers against the Warriors in Game 6 of the first round. ... Golden State's 21 3s in the opener matched the most in franchise history for a playoff game. ... Golden State improved to 20-6 in Game 2s dating to the 2014-15 title run.

The Marine veteran charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a subway train beneath Manhattan on Monday has reportedly hired the former rival of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to represent him. 

Per The New York Post, the unnamed veteran has retained criminal defense attorney Thomas Kenniff, who ran as a Republican candidate against Bragg in the 2021 Manhattan DA race. 

Kenniff ultimately lost to Bragg, who became the first Black Manhattan DA. On the campaign trail, Kenniff criticized Bragg’s soft-on-crime policies. 

"Given what I say is a humanitarian crisis going on in the streets of New York City, this is not a moment in time when we should be experimenting with new age criminal justice policies," Kenniff told Fox News Digital in 2021. 

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"If anything, we should be looking into or talking about how we double down on the policies that have worked over the last 30 years … We should be talking about how we get tougher on crime, not softer on crime." 

Neely, who is Black, was reportedly having a mental episode on the F train Monday, yelling and pacing back and forth, when a Marine veteran tackled him to the ground and put him in a chokehold, according to witnesses and police. 

Two other straphangers helped restrain him, and a video that captured part of the encounter shows Neely, a Michael Jackson impersonator, slowly go limp and then die. 

The city's medical examiner determined that the manner of death was a homicide caused by compression of the neck. 

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The 24-year-old Marine veteran, who appeared to be White, was taken into custody and released without charges. His name has not been released publicly.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said it is investigating.

"As part of our rigorous ongoing investigation, we will review the Medical Examiner's report, assess all available video and photo footage, identify and interview as many witnesses as possible, and obtain additional medical records," read a statement from a spokesperson for the DA.

Should the DA bring criminal charges after the Marine vet, it could potentially set up another showdown between Bragg and his former rival. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to Bragg’s office and Kenniff for comment. 

Fox News’ Sam Dorman, Louis Casiano, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.