Mission accomplished.

By virtue of Wednesday night’s 110-98 victory here at AT&T Center, Golden State swept this Texas two-step, and virtually wrapped up the NBA’s best record and home-court advantage throughout the playoffs in the process. But by winning these two games, and winning them without Kevin Durant, the Warriors did something else as the NBA enters the final two weeks of this regular season: show the league just how tall a task it’s going to be to take down this team in the playoffs.

“That’s as tough a back-to-back as you’re going to find, in terms of playing two of the best teams in the league,” Warriors Coach Steve Kerr said. “Our guys are tough and competitive, and they’re pretty good.

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“So, it’s been a good two games.”

That’s an understatement. Tuesday’s game was impressive enough, upending the Rockets and forcing James Harden into an uneven performance (despite a triple-double) as the Warriors took a big lead early and went on to win.

But this game against the Spurs was the one everyone had circled on their calendars. A little over two weeks ago, the Warriors had a chance to extract some revenge for their season-opening blowout loss at the hands of the Spurs in Oakland, only to opt to sit their key players for the final game of what was an insane 13 day stretch that saw them play eight games in eight different cities and crisscross the country twice.

Wednesday, though, everyone (at least besides Durant) was available. And after the Warriors were staggered in the opening minutes of the game, falling behind 15-0, 23-3 and 29-7 at different points in the first quarter — with the game threatening to look a lot like San Antonio’s whitewashing of the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday — they slowly began to drag themselves back into the game.

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“Everything was stacked against us after that first quarter,” Stephen Curry said.

It soon wasn’t, though, but for an entirely unexpected reason. Sure, Curry continued to look like he was back to his two-time MVP level self, finishing with 29 points and 11 assists while committing just two turnovers, and Klay Thompson had yet another hot shooting game and finished with 23.

But it was Golden State’s trio of veterans off the bench — Andre Iguodala, David West and Shaun Livingston — that were the true standouts for the Warriors.

Playing in San Antonio, the talk about the second unit is always expected to be about the Spurs’ backups, who perennially rank among the best in the NBA (with this year being no different). On this night, however, San Antonio’s main reserves were ineffective. West, Livingston and Iguodala, however, were plus-23, 19 and 17 respectively — numbers that all accurately reflected their contributions on the night.

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“The bench was great,” Kerr said. “It was fun to watch.”

It wasn’t long ago — as recently as when the Warriors were shellacked in this same arena while resting their stars to drop a third straight game — that everything about this team was being questioned. From Curry’s ability to dominate games to the health status of Durant to having enough depth — all of it was open to interpretation and up for debate.

All the Warriors have done since then is rattle off a nine-game winning streak that’s seen them utterly dominate their competition, to the tune of outscoring their opponents by an astronomical 18.6 points per 100 possessions per NBA.com. Curry, meanwhile, is back to putting up the same numbers he did when he put up one of the best statistical seasons in NBA history last season, and the bench — most notably Iguodala — has rounded into form at just the right time.

Add in the fact that Durant’s status was favorably updated Wednesday — the four-week mark from when he was initially diagnosed with a Grade 2 MCL sprain and a tibial bone bruise — and that the superstar forward is, barring a setback, expected to rejoin the Warriors for the final three games of the regular season, and it’s hard to believe it was only two weeks ago that the sky seemed to be falling all around them.

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“They did a good job,” Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich said. “All their switching bothered us. We didn’t get great movement. We didn’t get great shots.

“That’s why they’re the best team in the league.”

They’ve played like it the last two nights, as the Warriors have beaten the two teams with the best records in the NBA besides themselves on the road with Durant watching in street clothes.

It was a statement of intent, one loud enough to reverberate around the NBA:

The Warriors are ready for the playoffs.