CLEVELAND — Stephen Curry shook off Iman Shumpert with a dribble, stepped back behind the line and splashed a 3-pointer that seemed to submerge a mute button on rocking and rolling Quicken Loans Arena.

Curry clenched both fists, slapped his chest and yelled, “C’mon!”

At last, this was the MVP and these were the Golden State Warriors — so deep, so deadly.

Curry and Andre Iguodala scored 22 points apiece and the Warriors squared the NBA Finals at 2-2 on Thursday night with a 103-82 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Game 5 is Sunday night at Oakland’s rambunctious Oracle Arena, where the teams split two overtime games last week. This wasn’t desperation for the Warriors, but it was close as none of the 32 teams which have fallen behind 3-1 in the finals has won a title.

“Tonight we came in with the mentality that we had to win this game,” said Curry.

LeBron James scored 20 points — 21 under his average in the series — with 12 rebounds and eight assists, but Cleveland’smegastar, needed stitches to close a cut on his head sustained banging into a camera in the first half, didn’t score in the fourth quarter .