It’s been almost 11 years since Stephen Curry won his first NBA title with the Golden State Warriors. He’s 38 years old. Draymond Green is 36.

It should have been over for this team years ago.

But on Wednesday, for at least one more night, and in a game that the Los Angeles Clippers were 5.5-point favorites, the Warriors gave us all a little more magic and upset L.A., 126-121, in the 9-10 play-in game.

Golden State was down 13 with less than 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter. At that point, the Clippers’ win probability was 97.6 percent.

But with the exception of LeBron James, there may not be two players in the NBA more battle-tested than Curry and Draymond. Bringing in Al Horford (who turns 40 in June) certainly upped the experience quotient too. And the Jonathan Kuminga-Kristaps Porziņģis looks like a more obvious Warriors win with each passing Golden State (or Atlanta Hawks) game.

Those four veterans, playing on a 37-45 team and facing elimination, just refused to let the Warriors die.

In the aforementioned 10-minute stretch, Porziņģis went 2-of-3 from the field, hit a three and handed out two assists. He finished the game with 20 points and 8-of-12 shooting. Horford closed the game and went 4-of-4 from deep in that final run. He looked like he was playing through an out-of-body experience.

But, as has been the case countless times over the last decade and change, the biggest heroes were the Warriors legends both bound to be first-ballot Hall of Famers.

Curry and Green, who are first and second in total plus-minus since the start of the 2014-15 season (Curry is plus-6,600, Green is plus-5,337 and third-place Nikola Jokić is almost 600 points back at plus-4,746), both put their stamps on this contest in typical Curry and Green fashion.

For the latter, it was all about defense. Rob Perez (perhaps known by you as @WorldWideWob on X) described Draymond’s containment of Kawhi Leonard as “solitary confinement.” And it’s hard to think of a more accurate characterization.

Regardless of what Kawhi tried, he just couldn’t seem to shake Green. The off-ball coverage looked like a nightmare. On the ball, Green stayed with Kawhi, step for step and dribble series for dribble series. He forced Leonard into a bad pass turnover, stole an inbound pass intended for him and sealed the win by picking his pocket with just over 30 seconds to play.

By the time the final buzzer sounded, Kawhi was 1-of-2 from the field in the fourth quarter. And that lone bucket came with under 20 seconds left and the Clippers down seven. The game had already been decided.

“He’s the best defender I’ve ever seen in my life,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after the game. “It’s just insane what he does out there.”

Kawhi, who called Draymond a “Hall of Fame defender” and said “It was hard to even get shots up,” would likely agree with Kerr’s assessment.

In that 10-minute closing kick, Green had three assists, two rebounds and two steals. He didn’t score (or even take a shot). That was left to Horford, and of course, Curry.

“When Steph’s on the floor, you always have a chance,” Draymond said after the game. And the final result backs that up.

After scoring just eight points through the 9:30 mark of the third quarter, Curry finished with 35 on 12-of-23 shooting. He dropped 11 in the fourth to put the Clippers away.

And he delivered the go-ahead triple with less than a minute to play.

Even with Klay Thompson’s absence and Jimmy Butler sidelined by an injury, the shotmaking from Curry and defense from Green made the entire fourth-quarter takeover feel like a trip through time. Some of the names on the back of the jersey were different. But at least in spirit, those were the old Warriors.

And though they still have one more play-in game to win (this one against the Phoenix Suns on Friday), it’s hard not to look ahead to a possible first-round matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The series could easily be billed as the next great NBA dynasty vs. the last one. It would be new vs. old. Rocky vs. Apollo.

The Suns are favored to win on Friday. And OKC would be an overwhelming favorite in a seven-game series against the Warriors.

But after years as the juggernaut, Golden State is now playing the underdog role in spectacular fashion. And the Warriors may not be done making memories for NBA fans.