NEW YORK — It was an amusing but telling scene in the visiting locker room at Barclays Center on Sunday evening after the Golden State Warriors’ win over the Brooklyn Nets.

Kevin Durant and Draymond Green telling hilarious stories about former NBA players they knew as youngsters, from a case of mistaken identity at a club to an older player telling Green when he knew it was “time to go.”

Stephen Curry recreating that famous crouch he debuted in the 2017 NBA Finals when Durant gave the Cleveland Cavaliers his “grand opening, grand closing” triple in Game 3, only this time Curry leaped from his chair to celebrate Boston Red Sox left fielder Steve Pearce’s first inning two-run homer to essentially close the door on the World Series.

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An amused Durant asked Curry, “How are you a Red Sox fan?” to which Curry started to explain, only saying there’s no professional baseball team in Charlotte, North Carolina (Curry’s hometown), before trailing off and laughing it away.

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They’re a different bunch these days, as the defending two-time champions aren’t suffering from Champagne fatigue and looking like a team happy to be around each other in the most unlikely of places: New York, where the Knicks stand to be a suitor for Durant this offseason when he hits free agency.

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Over the course of five days, Curry scored 51 against the Wizards, Durant put up 25 in the fourth quarter against the Knicks to turn a deficit into a rout, and Klay Thompson broke out of his slump Monday in record-breaking fashion, hitting an NBA-record 14 triples against the Bulls for 52 points in 27 easy minutes.

Green is a catalyst, participant and witness for everything, the emotional leader of the Warriors who understands this season has to take a different tone than last year’s run to a ring — one that was almost derailed in the Western Conference Finals, with only a Chris Paul hamstring injury perhaps keeping the Houston Rockets from knocking off the champions.

“Last year we cruised through the year and were looking forward to the playoffs and didn’t enjoy the process along the way,” Green told Yahoo Sports. “In not enjoying the process, it made it that much tougher because you’re not enjoying what you’re doing.”

They’re celebrating the mundane this season, having fun with Curry’s explosions and Thompson’s beard and headband, and even remixing Fergie’s eyebrow-raising national anthem from the All-Star Game last year.

So when the subject of Durant-to-New York comes up, Green doesn’t bat an eye.

“When that decision comes up, I think we’ll have won three championships,” Green told Yahoo Sports. “That’s my recruiting: three out of three.”

Green added that the last few years have been “exhausting,” referring to the emotional toll the long playoff runs have had on individual players. So even with speculation about a potential Durant departure in the air, Green believes, for the sake of his own peace of mind, he has to block it out.

“We’ve been under the lights, like really under the lights since 2015,” he said. “Since then it’s been nonstop and you have to figure out how to remove yourself from that, because it’s exhausting. I really don’t pay much attention to it. And I won’t pay much attention to it.”

View photos Draymond Green says he has his recruiting pitch ready to keep Kevin Durant with the Warriors. (AP) More

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