Warriors act the part of winners

The last time the Golden State Warriors won an NBA playoff series was 1991, just after actress-to-be Jessica Alba celebrated her 10th birthday.

It was beginning to look like Alba would be up for Judi Dench-type roles before the Warriors won their next series.

But with one more victory over the Dallas Mavericks, the Warriors would move beyond the first round for only the fifth time since 1975 -- when they won the NBA title six years before Alba was born.

That success, plus word of Alba’s plan to attend Game 4 Sunday, caused a minor tizzy in the East Bay. The website

goldenstateofmind.com went so far as to put a hex on the Mavericks:

“Not that they aren’t already, but the Mavs should be scared, very scared. The Warriors have NEVER lost a playoff game with Jessica Alba in attendance.”

Of course, they’d never won, either. Sunday was the first Warriors playoff game for Alba, who was there to support her friend, Warriors guard Baron Davis.

Then again, this might just be a movie tie-in for Alba. One more victory would be a “Fantastic Four” for the Warriors.

Trivia time

How many times have the Warriors been eliminated by the Lakers in the playoffs?

Roundballywood

The Warriors have some ground to cover to match the Lakers’ star appeal, but they’re working on it.

Kate Hudson and her beau, Owen Wilson, also attended Sunday’s game.

“They’re all Baron’s friends,” the Warriors’ Stephen Jackson said. “He’s really Hollywood, don’t you know.”

The Warriors, though, are no strangers to Tinseltown. They were a key plot component in the movie “Inside Moves,” where an unknown basketball player who has knee surgery gets a tryout with the Warriors and wins a spot on the roster.

A farfetched, totally unbelievable, no-way-in-a-million-years story that could never, ever, happen in real life.

Kind of like the inside move the Warriors have put on the Mavericks thus far.

Sorry Charlie

Charles Barkley handed the Mavericks the series even after the Warriors won Game 1.

“I think [the Warriors] take terrible shots. They do,” Barkley, a television analyst, said during Game 2. “They take terrible shots and sometimes they go in. Now once they lose, they’ll realize they’re actually in the playoffs and I think Dallas will win the next four games.”

Warriors fans have not let Barkley forget.

“Their crowd was loud and obnoxious when their team [was terrible],” Barkley said. “Now that they’re good, their fans are really loud and obnoxious.”

And, as he has often proved, Barkley is an expert on the loud and the obnoxious.

Tug McGraw would agree

Warriors hero Matt Barnes, a former UCLA forward, had the word “Believe” tattooed on his neck five years ago, explaining to the Dallas Morning News that, “I was going through some hard times and debating what’s going on with my career and my life. So one day, I just thought I’d get a ‘Believe’ tattoo. Just believe in myself and stay focused. God worked everything out.”

Barnes upgraded Saturday, adding a pair of praying hands around “Believe.”

Trivia answer

Six. The only time the Warriors beat the Lakers in the postseason was in 1967.

And finally ...

The Colorado Rockies, who had lost eight of nine, rallied to beat the Atlanta Braves, 9-7, in 11 innings on Sunday.

Said Manager Clint Hurdle: “We needed the win like a hog needs slop.”

All it took was an unassisted triple play by Troy Tulowitzki, a game-tying two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning -- on three walks, a hit batter and a groundout -- and a walk-off home run by Matt Holliday in the 11th.

Let’s see Hurdle weave all that into a This-Little-Piggy rhyme.

chris.foster@latimes.com