Taras Domitro was not a basketball fan when he joined the San Francisco Ballet as a principal dancer in 2008.

“But I became one,” he said.

Domitro, who was born in Havana, happened to arrive in the Bay Area one year before the Golden State Warriors drafted Stephen Curry. That fortunate turn of events goes a long way toward explaining how Domitro grew to enjoy watching the game.

“What I see the most when I watch Steph is the incredible coordination he has with his arms, his legs and the way he handles the ball,” Domitro, 29, said before drawing a comparison between their respective disciplines and referring to the way male dancers support women as they execute a lift or a jump. “We don’t use a ball, you know. We use a woman. But the way he dribbles the ball is the way we handle a woman on stage.”

The defending champion Warriors are at it again — scoring points, winning games and setting ridiculous standards. On Tuesday night, the Warriors (15-0) could break an N.B.A. record for the best start to a season by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif. Curry, the N.B.A.’s leading scorer and last season’s most valuable player, has been at the center of it all, having added a new title to his résumé: the N.B.A.’s unofficial artist-in-residence.