OAKLAND, Calif. — After dropping their first three games of this road trip in the final minute, the Nets didn’t have to worry about that Tuesday at Golden State. They lost this one in the third quarter.

The Nets fell 114-101 to the defending champion Warriors before a sellout crowd of 19,596 at Oracle Arena.

After the Nets overcame the second-biggest run in the NBA this season, another Warriors (50-14) spurt put them away. They have dropped 12 of their last 13 games, and 16 of their last 18.

The Nets coughed up a 25-0 run, tied for the second-longest in the league, fall behind by 21. They fought back for a five-point halftime lead, only to give up a 22-5 surge that spanned the third and fourth; and that one was too much to undue.

“It’s what they do. I think they have the biggest scoring margin in the third quarter, we come out and make a few mistakes offensively and they go on a 9-2 run and end up scoring 38 points in the fourth quarter,” said coach Kenny Atkinson said. “I think the knockout punch in the third quarter that was the key in the game.”

Stephen Curry had a game-high 34 points for the Warriors, who also got 19 from Kevin Durant and 18 from Klay Thompson.

D’Angelo Russell, who was benched for the final 15 minutes of Sunday’s loss at the Clippers. was active, engaged and efficient with 22 points and eight assists. But DeMarre Carroll (19 points) was the only other Net with a solid offensive night, as they will try to avoid a winless five-game trip Thursday in Charlotte.

“It’s a lot of firepower, the best team in the world,” Russell said. “They struggled a little bit and then they figure it out and the attacked it. Just trying to keep composed for all 48 minutes which was a hard task.

“I thought we played well. I thought everybody did their job. We missed some shots.”

With the Nets clinging to an early 14-10 lead, they surrendered a staggering 25-0 run over the next five minutes. The Nets missed all seven of their shots, while they let the Warriors hit 9-of-10, including 3-of-3 from deep. By the time it was over, they trailed 35-14 on Curry’s running 3-pointer with 58.3 seconds left in the first quarter.

As eye-opening as it was, nobody could have predicted what came next.

The Nets, who couldn’t buy a stop early, flipped the script on the champs, holding them to 6-of-19 shooting and forcing nine turnovers in the rest of the first half. The Nets outscored the Warriors 39-13 the rest of the way — the fewest points they surrendered in any quarter all season — to take a 53-48 lead into the locker room.

But while the Nets largely held former Durant and Thompson in check, JaVale McGee rose up to punish them. He had three dunks in a 9-2 run to open the half that put the Warriors back up 57-55.

The rest of the third quarter was a back-and-forth affair, Russell giving Brooklyn a 76-73 lead on an 18-foot pull-up jumper with 2:39 left in the period. But the last run belonged to Golden State, a 22-5 surge that settled the game for good.

The Warriors took an 86-80 edge into the fourth; and by the time Thompson capped the run on a pull-up jumper, they padded it to 95-81. The clock read 9:16 left in the game, but the contest was over. The Nets didn’t have another rally in them.

“It’s tough. You want to come out with a win after fighting so hard,” Rondae Hollis-Jefferson said. “But I’m proud of the guys that came out and competed.Couple times I missed a coverage, I didn’t know what I was in. I definitely take the blame on some of those.”