The Warriors won for the 12th time in their last 15 games and made it seven in a row on the road Tuesday night with a 110-99 win over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

Now 31-27, the Warriors visit Toronto Friday night with a chance to win their third game on the four-game road trip when they face a team with a 22-37 record.

Stephen Curry, who came into the game in a mini-slump over his last three games, hit eight 3-point baskets and led the Warriors with 31 points, with forward Jonathan Kuminga adding 25.

New York, a shell of itself in recent weeks with the losses of power forward Julius Randle and OG Anunoby to injury, lost for the eighth time in their last 11 games and fell to 35-25. Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 27 points.

Should the Warriors take care of business against Toronto, all that remains on the road trip is a Sunday afternoon date in Boston against the Celtics, the top team in the Eastern Conference with a 46-12 record and 27-3 at home.

The Warriors never trailed in the game, taking charge at the outset with stout defense even if the offensive performance was uneven throughout. Much of their damage was done in the paint, while other than Curry, the 3-point shooting was a problem.

Curry was 8-for-18 on 3-pointers, with the rest of the roster going 6-for-27.

New York shot just 36.8 percent from the floor (35-for-95) and was 12 of 39 from 3-point land.

The Warriors’ hot-and-cold tendencies were on display in the third quarter, at one point rebuilding their lead to as much as 17 points before seeing New York close within 73-67 with a 13-2 run. When the quarter ended, the Warriors took an 80-70 lead into the fourth quarter.

Curry, who had six made field goals in the win over Washington to start the road trip, had six in the first half against the Knicks including 4-for-8 from 3-point range for 17 points. He also had 10 rebounds, seven of them coming in the game’s first five minutes. Kuminga had 14 points at the half for the Warriors.

The Knicks had to feel good about getting the lead under 10 points at the half after hitting just a third (16 of 48) of their shots from the field. Ex-Warrior Donte DiVincenzo and Josh Hart led New York with 11 points each with Brunson adding nine in he opening half.

The Warriors led 31-19 after the first quarter and it could have been more. The Knicks were just 6-for-22 shooting and 3-for-11 on 3-point attempts, with Curry getting 11 in the first quarter and nailing his first three 3-pointers.

It wasn’t as though the Warriors were lighting it up, hitting just 12 of their first 27 shots. They missed at least three layup attempts and a number of other shots with good looks that didn’t fall.

The Warriors scored the first 14 points with New York missing its first nine shots, and had leads of 17-2 and 20-4 before the Knicks got anything going.

WHERE’S WIGGINS?: Forward Andrew Wiggins missed his second consecutive game due to undisclosed personal reasons. Talking with reporters before the game, Warriors coach Steve Kerr shed no light on the reason for Wiggins’ absence other than to say the absence as excused and that he and director of medicine/performance Rick Celebrini have spoken with him.

“This is a personal issue he’s dealing with and we expect him back, but it will remain private,” Kerr said.

Wiggins missed the final 25 games of the regular season a year ago for undisclosed reasons and returned to play in all 13 playoff games.

Before the All-Star break, Curry became the first player in NBA history to make at least seven 3-pointers in four consecutive games. Then he put on an unbelievable display of shooting against Sabrina Ionescu during All-Star weekend and came out of the break firing against the Lakers. But for the past three games, Curry is shooting 31.5% overall and 21.6% from behind the arc.

Even the greatest shooter of all time goes through cold spells like this. This minuscule three-game sample size isn’t unprecedented even for him. But everything for the Warriors starts and ends with Curry, so the Warriors need to get him back on track fast. He has an excellent opportunity to return to form in one of his favorite places to play: Madison Square Garden.

The Warriors head to Manhattan to play the Knicks tonight after beating the lowly Wizards Tuesday despite a dismal night from Curry. The two-time MVP went scoreless in the first half and finished 6-for-21 overall. For stretches in the fourth quarter, it looked like he took shots with the goal of rediscovering any sort of rhythm.

Earlier this week, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said he thinks Curry is fatigued.

“This is all part of the season,” Kerr said. “Every player goes through it, you know, just feeling a little fatigued, a little heavy-legged. He’ll get it back, and if we have to give him a game to help him do that, then we’ll do that.”

Curry wouldn’t be the first player to experience some post-All-Star malaise. And without a reliable second scorer to take the load off him, he’s had to put the Warriors on his back often. There would be no shame in needing a night off in a league in which superstars in recent years frequently manage their load. But Curry insisted that he’s not tired.

“You miss shots,” Curry said Sunday. “It’s one of those things — that’s why they’re called averages. You got the highs and lows of it. That standard that you set, when you don’t meet it, it gets questioned. Just keep shooting. It’s part of the nature of being available and playing every game. You never lose confidence.”

Yet that was before Tuesday night, when Curry sank just four of his 16 3-pointers. That performance followed 1-for-10 and 3-for-11 nights. In his 15-year career, Curry has only had three stretches of three games shooting that poorly.

He’ll look to break the streak against the Knicks, who have impressed this year but are missing starters OG Anunoby and Julius Randle. Madison Square Garden has been one of the most memorable arenas of Curry’s career.

In 2013, Curry broke onto the national stage with a 54-point explosion at the mecca of basketball. He played all 48 minutes and went 11-for-13, outscoring the rest of his teammates.

In 2021, he broke Ray Allen’s all-time record for career 3-pointers in front of Allen and Reggie Miller in MSG.

Curry has played 10 games in Madison Square Garden since his rookie year, when he only logged three minutes. In those 10 games, he’s averaging 28.1 points per game on a ludicrous 49% from deep.

If Curry can’t get going in that kind of environment, where the adrenaline will be pumping and the history of the building omnipresent, he could risk entering uncharted territory for him. And with the Warriors pushing to escape the play-in round, they can’t afford for his slump to persist much longer.

Is this surging team currently playing the best basketball it can?

The Dubs’ next five games will tell us everything we need to know.

Well, almost everything.

The Dubs’ upcoming stretch is, in a word, hellacious. Thursday and Friday night, they’ll play a road back-to-back against two of the better day-to-day operators in the NBA, the Knicks and Raptors.

Then, on Sunday, they’ll face arguably the NBA’s best team, the Celtics, in Boston.

The Warriors will return home and have a few days off after that, but the infamous first game after a road trip at Chase Center on Wednesday will be against Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks. And that’s the front end of a back-to-back — the scrappy Bulls come to San Francisco on Thursday.

I’m exhausted just thinking about it. I can only imagine how the Warriors will handle it on the court.

But if this team can amass a winning record over the next week, it’ll speak volumes to the quality of this operation. If that happens, we can buy the Warriors’ current form — they’ve won nine of their last 11 games — as a baseline.

The alternative takes us down a darker alley. I don’t want to go back down there again.

Though, seeing as the Warriors are 3.5 games back of the No. 6 seed — the last guaranteed playoff spot — in the Western Conference, it’s not as if they can afford to do worse than three wins over the next five.

But beating quality playoff teams like the Knicks, the Celtics, and the Bucks is something this team needs to prove it can do.

So far this season, the Warriors are 6-21 against the top six teams in each conference’s playoff standings (as of Thursday). That includes an awful 3-17 mark against the top teams in the West.

The Warriors deserve plaudits for turning their awful season around and becoming a respectable, entertaining product once again.

But if this team is going to do anything more than it did last year — one-and-done in the playoffs — it needs to start beating playoff teams. That’s not a hot take, it’s logic.

The Dubs’ loss to Denver on Sunday hardly inspired confidence that this team can do that. The Nuggets downright punked the Warriors.

Even Tuesday’s Warriors win over the Wizards — an embarrassing operation that will likely be remembered as the worst NBA team since the 10-win 2016 Sixers — failed to inspire confidence.

Sure, Chris Paul came back into the fold for that game and looked good, but the Wizards made the Dubs sweat for more than a few minutes. That’s unacceptable. What’s the opposite of a moral victory?

The performances in the last two games point to a team that appears to have peaked. It took months to find a style of play that worked for the Warriors — they settled on small-ball — but only a few more weeks to find the limits of that style. Predictable stuff.

Of course, the Dubs can keep doing what they’re doing and still make the play-in tournament and maybe even steal a first-round win in the playoffs.

But if that’s the best the Warriors can do, they’re simply treading water. They’ll be right back where they started this season.

Beating the Celtics, Knicks, and/or the Bucks would tell us something different, though.

To do that will require a level of play beyond what the Dubs have put on the court in recent weeks. (Which, again, is good. But the standard around these parts is greatness, and I refuse to let that change.)

To do that, the Warriors will need to find Andrew Wiggins.

I’m not even talking about the best version of him — the 2022 playoff edition. I’m speaking literally: Do they know where he is?

They need him on the court to beat the league’s best. It’d be preferable if he was at his best, but at this point, such a request seems greedy.

Can coach Steve Kerr properly manage Paul’s minutes to limit his time on the court with Steph Curry? I know the Warriors think it’s a good idea to play the two Hall of Famers together — it takes Steph off the ball, after all — but opposing coaches think it’s a good idea, too. Whatever the Dubs can get on offense with that backcourt is promptly given up on the other end. The duo pushes the concept of small-ball beyond the point of usefulness.

And can the Warriors continue to play with the pace and space their new diminutive style affords them? Do they have enough gas in the tank for this road trip, much less enough gas to make it out of April?

Beating some of the best teams in the East won’t answer every question we have about the Dubs — we still need to see them square off with the best in the West, their true peers — but it would be progress on top of the progress this team has already made.

It would provide us all the license to bust out our hyperbole machines and start talking about making a dark horse run at a title.

And that would raise a new question:

What edition of We Believe would this be?

At the moment, Podziemski’s pick was Golden State’s seventh steal. They capitalized on the Wizards’ 12th turnover. And Steph Curry wasn’t involved in any of it.

Curry had his third straight quiet game, but the Warriors’ bench picked up the slack for him as they helped Golden State open its four-game east coast trip with a 123-112 win over the cellar-dwelling Wizards Tuesday night.

The Warriors had been excited about their highly anticipated bench unit led by future Hall of Famers Chris Paul and Klay Thompson, and their first taste of it was sweet.

In his first game since fracturing his hand on Jan. 5, Paul (9 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, 4 steals) was a +17 in 22 minutes. Thompson logged 25 points in 27 minutes for his third high-impact game off the bench. Golden State’s bench scored 59 points, overcoming a 6-for-21 shooting night and scoreless first half from Curry.

“I couldn’t think of a better backcourt coming off the bench than me and Chris,” Thompson said on the NBC Sports Bay Area broadcast after the victory.

Jordan Poole, one of Curry’s running mates in the Warriors’ 2022 title season, played his second game against his former team. He came off the bench for the fourth straight game, having been relegated from Washington’s starting lineup amid a disastrous first season as a Wizard.

Poole looked determined initially, draining a 3 off the dribble over Curry right after he checked in. He also freed himself for a wide open layup — a too common occurrence for Golden State’s defense early on. But Poole’s game was familiar in the other direction as well; in his first six minutes, he attempted six shots and committed three turnovers.

The former Warrior finished with 12 points, six turnovers and a technical foul in 29 minutes.

In all, the Warriors forced 21 turnovers and broke the game open by winning the third quarter by 21 points.

Meanwhile, Paul’s return set the Warriors’ ideal second unit into place. With Paul, Thompson, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Dario Saric as the key four pieces, Golden State clicked. In one 50-second stretch, they went on a 12-0 run with four straight stops and four straight triples from Thompson, Saric, Paul and Moses Moody — back in the mix because of Andrew Wiggins’ absence (personal reasons).

Yet despite Moody and Paul — game-high +10 in the first half — playing well, the Warriors clung to just a two-point lead at half. Curry went scoreless in the half, missing all six of his 3-point attempts.

At that point, Curry had made just one of his last 16 3-pointers across six quarters.

Curry sank a pair of 3s to open the second half, and his teammates followed. Paul and Thompson also buried shots from behind the arc and Payton (3 steals) sparked more transition opportunities in a 25-6 run to dominate the third quarter.

Much of the damage then came with Curry on the bench as the backup backcourt that’s heading to Springfield looked incredible. Thompson dropped 21 points in his first 19 minutes and Paul made an impact on both ends.

“What a luxury to come off the bench with Chris Paul and Klay Thompson, I mean that’s crazy,” Steve Kerr said postgame.

Even with a 23-point lead, Curry continued to misfire, making any cushion precarious. Washington opened the fourth quarter on a 19-8 run, threatening to repeat the type of Warriors collapse that has cropped up often this season.

Curry kept shooting, and used the threat of his jumper to get inside for a couple of buckets. Finally he hit a pull-up 3 in transition and then a practice-level triple from above the break. Even at his worst, Curry had enough in the tank to put away the lowly Wizards.

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You can see the Currys at home in the penthouse in a news clip featuring a day in his life.

Through the years, as the Curry family grew to include three children in all (Riley, Ryan and Canon) and many more trophies, they moved to other jaw-dropping properties in Contra Costa County. After the Warriors’ move across the bay to San Francisco in 2019, the Currys settled in the Peninsula town of Atherton.

Wiggins, a 2022 All-Star, missed two months of last season due to undisclosed personal reasons. It was reported that Wiggins’s father was dealing with medical issues.

The former Rookie of the Year winner missed 25 games last year, from mid-February through April before returning in the postseason.

Wiggins has struggled this season, averaging a career-low 12.7 points per game. He has looked more like himself in February, shooting 50.4% from the floor and 47.5% from 3. Warriors head coach Steve Kerr recently said that he thinks Wiggins is in better condition than he was earlier in the year.

Still, the Warriors have struggled to find a consistent second scorer next to Steph Curry, and Wiggins hasn’t emerged as a true candidate to fill that void.

Without Wiggins against the Wizards, Moses Moody — the former lottery pick who has fallen out of Golden State’s rotation — could see a bit more playing time. Lester Quinones and Gary Payton II remain ahead of Moody in the pecking order, though.

Golden State will be otherwise healthy to begin its four-game trip, with point guard Chris Paul playing in his first game since fracturing his hand in January.

It shouldn’t take a full squad for the Warriors to handle Washington, which is 9-48 — one win better than the worst record in the league — and just demoted Jordan Poole to the bench last week. The Wizards have lost 11 straight games entering Tuesday, the longest active losing streak in the NBA.

Moody stepped onto the court with a reliable rookie, a former lacrosse superstar, a two-way player and an undrafted player who just minted a standard contract. One of these things is not like the others.

Moody, the 14th overall pick, has more pedigree than those other players. And, when given minutes, he hasn’t been bad; Moody’s box plus-minus is higher than that of Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Jonathan Kuminga and Quinones. He’s averaging a career-high 7.8 points and 2.9 rebounds in 16.8 minutes per game.

But Moody has been squeezed out of Steve Kerr’s deep rotation. As someone who does lots of things well but nothing spectacularly, he has fallen victim to a numbers game. With Chris Paul returning for Golden State’s East Coast trip to Washington, New York, Toronto and Boston, there’s even less of a path to playing time for the third-year forward out of Arkansas.

“There’s only so many guys I can play,” Kerr said after Sunday’s loss to Denver. “I already had 11 guys in the rotation, which is almost impossible. Twelve is impossible.”

In the pecking order, Moody is now behind Paul, Kuminga, Thompson, Wiggins, Quinones, Gary Payton II and Dario Saric. That list spans options of varying skill sets, experience, caliber and position.

Moody will have to stay ready, but it might take two injuries for him to get back in the mix. Against Charlotte on Friday, with both Paul and Payton unavailable, he made a positive impact in eight minutes. The game before, with the same injury situation, he played 20 minutes against the Lakers.

Now that Kerr has a full complement of options, those kinds of nights will be rare for Moody going forward.

“There’s not enough minutes for everybody,” Kerr said.

The most interesting merchant of Moody’s minutes has been Quinones, who was converted from a two-way player to a standard contract last week. While Moody is slightly taller and has a sturdier frame, Quinones looks quicker laterally, making him a better option to defend down the positional spectrum.

Quinones probably fits better as a point-of-attack defender and is a slightly better 3-point shooter than Moody.

The other player Moody might have a case to supplant is Saric, whose minutes have also been crunched recently. The power forward has struggled of late, shooting 37.5% from the floor and 20% from deep in February. Although Saric has more size than Moody, he’s not a great rebounder.

Saric plays next to Jackson-Davis to provide floor spacing, but that goes out the window if he’s not making shots. Perhaps Moody could fill the same role as a small-ball power forward in the second unit, but those lineups would give up a lot of size. Plus, Paul’s return should help Saric given their two-man chemistry.

Or, if Saric thrives with Paul, Moody fits nicely as a wing with Saric as the lone big man. The Paul-Podziemski-Moody-Kuminga-Saric lineup is +19.3 points per 100 possessions in a small sample size. The same combination with Wiggins in for Kuminga has a similarly promising track record. That lineup construction has a good blend of spacing, playmaking and outside shooting.

There’s still no easy path for the Warriors to find more minutes for Moody. That won’t change as the Warriors push to escape the play-in round.

Moody is still only 21, as old as college seniors. But it must be tough for him to take what’s amounting to a third redshirt year.

“He’s out of the loop right now, but that doesn’t mean that’s the case for the rest of the season,” Kerr said. “We’ve got a lot of guys who are healthy, we’re getting Chris back… so everybody has got to stay ready.”

Chris Paul, the 12-time All-Star point guard, is listed as available to play on Tuesday in Washington after missing almost two months with a broken hand. Head coach Steve Kerr will have a complete array of rotation players to deploy to begin a stretch of away games against the Wizards, Knicks, Raptors and Celtics.

Paul’s return to the lineup will give Golden State a second-unit backcourt of two future Hall of Famers: Paul and Klay Thompson. But it will also give Kerr even more options to consider for the closing lineup, with those two and Brandin Podziemski probably most often competing for one spot.

Kerr described that dynamic as a “numbers crunch.” Thompson said he anticipates Paul to “right the ship” when Steph Curry needs a rest. Curry said: “You’d be an idiot to not think CP can help us.”

“When he got hurt, we were not in a great place,” Curry said Sunday. “Trying to establish our identity. We’ve had a pretty good run, built some momentum since he’s been out. But he’s such a connector and a floor general, guy that gets everyone in the right spots. So whether it’s when I’m on the bench or we’re on the court at the same time, it’ll hopefully elevate us to another level.”

Paul has been sidelined since Jan. 5, when he suffered a fractured left hand while going for a long rebound. The 38-year-old has dealt with that same or similar injury several times during his 19-year career.

During the All-Star break, Paul was cleared for basketball activities. He told Kerr that he played a bunch over the break and was a full participant in practice this past week. The team expected him to be cleared to return at some point on their trip, so getting him back against Washington is a sign that the final stages of his recovery went smoothly.

Paul was one of Golden State’s more consistently productive players this year before the hand injury. He was a part of seven of the Warriors’ 10 most effective lineups and often finished games. His all-around skill set and basketball IQ allow him to blend in with a variety of teammate combinations and his playmaking instincts should be a boon to Dario Saric, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Thomspon.

In 32 games this year, Paul is averaging 8.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.

The Dubs came into the game riding high, having won three straight games amid a larger stretch that has returned the team to respectability and the fringe of the Western Conference’s top six.

Golden State was starting to think they could turn this season — on the verge of being condemned only a few weeks ago — into something to remember.

Perhaps the Warriors can do that down the line.

But the Nuggets showed them that there’s a big gap between respectability and serious contention, and the Warriors are nowhere near that second status.

We saw the Nuggets do to the Warriors on Sunday night what we saw the dynastic Warriors do to so many teams for a half-decade: they messed around with them for a while to start the game, allowing the opposition to build up a lead and confidence — then they suffocated them.

The Warriors led by as many as 15 points in the first half. Klay Thompson looked 23 again, scoring 23 in the first two quarters. Andrew Wiggins looked like an impact wing. The ball was moving on offense, the Warriors were rotating on defense, and the San Francisco crowd was justly loving life.

Then the Nuggets decided they had enough of all of that.

Denver went on a 14-0 run to end the first half, tying the contest at the break.

Then, in the second half, they put another 14-0 run on the board.

Nikola Jokić controlled every facet of the game, posting an absurd stat line of 32 points, 16 rebounds, and 16 assists with four steals. Most impressively, I don’t think he jumped once.

And with Jamal Murray scoring an efficient 27 points, the Nuggets’ 1-2 punch took it to the Dubs on offense.

Defensively, the Nuggets smothered the Warriors from the end of the second quarter onwards. Denver was longer than the Warriors at every position, and the Nuggets’ size and physicality overwhelmed Golden State as the game progressed. The Nuggets made it toughest on possessions where the Dubs needed to score the most.

The Warriors’ 15-point lead turned into a Nuggets 15-point lead by the time Golden State coach Steve Kerr pulled his top players off the floor late in the fourth quarter.

Yes, the defending champion Nuggets did what great teams do.

They did what the Clippers did to the Warriors on Feb. 14.

It doesn’t matter if you fall behind early when you’re a great team like Denver or the Clippers. You can afford to feel your opponent out to start a game.

But when the switch is flipped, it stays on.

The Clippers, who have been the West’s best for the last two months, waited until the fourth quarter of that Valentine’s Day game to exert their superiority over the Dubs.

The Nuggets attacked earlier, but the second half Sunday only hammered home the point.

The Warriors’ recent success has come against relative minnows. A win is a win, yes, but to compete for a title, you have to beat the best of the best.

And so far this season, the Warriors are 2-12 against the West’s four best teams (1-3 vs. the Thunder, 1-3 vs. the Clippers, 0-2 to the Timberwolves, 0-4 vs the Nuggets), and 3-17 against the top six teams (1-2 vs. the Pelicans, 1-3 vs. the Suns).

The last time the Warriors beat the Nuggets was Game 5 of the teams’ 2022 first-round playoff series.

The roles have reversed since then.

Now, are the Dubs playing better ball as of late? Absolutely. And that’s made them a surefire playoff team. (Or at least a play-in team.)

But as the Warriors know from one-time first-hand experience, this game has levels.

And the Warriors’ best this season is not good enough for that top level.

Jokic registered 32 points, 16 rebounds, 16 assists, four steals and a block in a 119-103 win as Denver completed its season series sweep over the Warriors. Three of those four games went down to the final seconds, so it wasn’t all complete domination, but the Nuggets have the Warriors’ number.

For the Warriors to make a surprise run back to the NBA Finals this year, they’ll have to go through Jokic. And Karl Anthony-Towns and Rudy Gobert in Minnesota. And Anthony Davis and LeBron James, the superstar Lakers frontcourt duo.

The concern for Golden State then is the same as it ever was: whether or not they’re big enough.

For the better part of the past decade, the Warriors have answered in the affirmative. Despite not having a dominant traditional center, Golden State has out-smarted, out-skilled and out-shot opponents. Draymond Green’s ability to guard centers — along with every other position — and their perimeter-oriented lineups’ tendency to draw opposing big men out of the paint has led to four Larry O’Brien trophies.

This year, with Green starting and playing almost exclusively at center, might cross the break-even point. Against Jokic and the Nuggets, it certainly looked like it.

Golden State’s game plan against the two-time MVP has been to try to force Jokic into a scorer, which goes against his natural instincts. Jokic is a Magic Johnson-level passer who is 7 feet tall and tends to skew pass-first.

To take away the pass, the Warriors play Jokic straight up, sending double teams only sporadically and only late in the shot clock. The idea is to let Jokic get his in the post and hug shooters on the perimeter.

The Warriors didn’t execute. Jokic picked them apart, both as a scorer and passer. He became the first player in NBA history with at least 14 assists and 14 rebounds in three straight games.

“It’s a lot to ask Draymond to guard him the entire time out there,” Kerr said postgame. “He’s just such a dominant force in every way.”

Other players who got a crack at Jokic were Kevon Looney — whose minutes have slipped but is more involved in the game plan against Denver — and Trayce Jackson-Davis. Late in the game, Klay Thompson stuck with Jokic in the post, which could end up being a unique wrinkle; putting a smaller defender on him could be a different way to lure him into taking more shots instead of creating for others.

The Warriors’ overall track record this year suggests Jokic’s once-in-a-lifetime skill may present a unique set of issues for the Warriors, though.

Even with their relative lack of size, the Warriors are second in the league in overall rebounding. Brandin Podziemski’s a terrific rebounder for his size, and Jonathan Kuminga and Andrew Wiggins have done a nice job of boxing out bigger opponents this month.

They’re 17th in opponents points in the paint, meaning teams aren’t just manhandling them inside (although they do foul too much, which could be somewhat of a reflection of being smaller).

And against imposing non-Jokic big men, the Warriors have had success.

In a 119-107 win over the 76ers, Golden State limited then-MVP frontrunner Joel Embiid to 14 points on 5-for-18 shooting. Green handled the brunt of the Embiid matchup, holding the center to just two free throw attempts. It proved that with Green at his best, and with the right scheme, they can topple a giant.

Even in two losses to the Timberwolves — decided by a total of nine points — the Warriors out-rebounded Minnesota in each contest. They even did so in the game Green got kicked out of two minutes in for choking Rudy Gobert.

Three-time All-Star Domantas Sabonis is shooting 51% in four games against the Warriors this year, 11 percentage points below his season average.

Although Looney appears less effective at wearing down opposing centers than he was during their title run, the Warriors have had enough success against star centers to stash away the alarm bells.

Except against Jokic and the Nuggets, who seem like the one team in the West that would have no qualms facing the Warriors in a playoff series.