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There’s plenty of credit to go around for the Warriors’ current 11-game winning streak and the team’s re-establishment as the NBA’s unquestioned best.

Stephen Curry is playing at an MVP level, Klay Thompson has figured out that he plays best when the ball only touches the floor after a made 3-pointer, Andre Iguodala and Kevin Durant are playing NBA Finals-quality defense, and DeMarcus Cousins has been even better than advertised in his first five games with the Dubs.

But it’s no coincidence that the Warriors’ winning streak started around the same time that Draymond Green’s season started to get on track.

I’d go as far to say that Green’s return to form has been the most important big-man addition to the Warriors this month. No offense to Cousins — he’s been fantastic — it’s just that Green’s impact can’t be fully calculated. The Warriors have always gone as Draymond goes — he’s the team’s “heartbeat”, after all — and right now both he and his team are playing exemplary, peerless ball.

Green is back to flying around on defense, anticipating the opponent’s next half-dozen moves like a chess grandmaster and then snuffing them out with ruthless zeal, all while he’s pushing the pace for the Warriors’ on offense, operating with both proficiency and efficiency that eluded him earlier this season.

“He’s playing as well as I’ve ever seen him play,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Wednesday. “I think he’s feeling healthier than he has in a long time.”

At a time where Green’s name has been involved in more than one half-baked trade rumor to “upgrade” and land Anthony Davis, the Warriors’ Swiss Army Knife is flashing his singular basketball genius and proving, once again, that he is simply irreplaceable to this dynastic team.

That said, those trade rumors might have been justified earlier this season, when Green was fighting a plethora of injuries and a ton of taxing minutes at the center position.

At the time, Green’s defense was a step or two behind and he was just as likely to hit a guy in the fifth row as he was to hit a teammate when he was passing the ball.

Oh, and his shooting was simply dreadful — equal parts flat and off-line. The running joke was that he looked like he was playing basketball while wearing a backpack.

On Christmas Day, a few games after returning from a turf-toe injury that sidelined him for 14 games, the Lakers deployed what Green called a “gimmick” defense that left him open to shoot 3-pointers to his heart’s content. He shot 2-of-7 from the field and had four turnovers to go with five assists. He was in his own head. Green isn’t the tallest, strongest, or fastest player — he’s created a likely Hall of Fame career by being the smartest guy on the court. So when anticipation turned to hesitation, the contrast was jarring.

Instead of shooting his way out of the funk, Green instead opted to focus on the little things that add up to make him great. When opposing defenses would leave him wide open, he’d either penetrate the defense or move the ball and go to set a pick. His increased defensive effort was evident, too. Green started to get his groove back — the Warriors followed suit, sparking the team’s 11-game winning streak.

And when Green made four 3-pointers against the Pelicans in a 147-140 win on Jan. 16, he let everyone know that confidence — that self-belief that drives Green and, in turn, the Dubs — was 100 percent back.

After the game, he told former Warriors assistant coach and current Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry: “Y’all played me like a 24 percent 3-point shooter. But I’m not a 24 percent 3-point shooter — I’m just shooting that right now.”

Green has improved, he’s been a 29 percent 3-point shooter in January — so the backpack is still on most nights — but it’s evident that he’s no longer in his head about what to do when he has an open look from distance.

But now that he’s back to seeing the game the way few others in the league can, the Warriors are back to winning games in ways that no other team in the league can.

“One thing about Draymond — you can’t really get caught up in numbers,” Cousins said. “That’s not what Draymond brings to the game. What you guys determine as a good game and what we expect of him as teammates is kind of two different things.”

That’s true, but Green’s numbers during the Warriors’ 11-game winning streak are stupendous — outside of the outside shooting, that is. During this stretch, Green has dished out more assists per game than Kyle Lowry, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden, and he has far and away the best assist-to-turnover ratio in the league at 4.62-to-1. He’s also averaging seven rebounds per game and giving the Warriors a steal and block per contest to go with a defensive impact that is second-to-none in the league.

“The assist-to-turnover ratio is spectacular. Kind of unheard of,” Kerr said. “But it’s not just the assists, it’s the push, it’s the constant pressure he’s putting on the defense… It’s a highly underrated skill in the NBA.”

“[It gives] your whole offense an advantage. So even on these possessions where he’s not getting an assist, he’s putting our offense in a proposition to score, to attack.”

What are the Warriors doing with that advantage? How about averaging a patently absurd 1.25 points per possession in January?

Green isn’t at all surprised that he’s back to being himself and that the Warriors — now with five All-Stars in their starting lineup — look like they’re playing JV teams on a nightly basis.

“I’m just starting to get my legs under me. Starting to get my feel back,” he reminded me. “I was pretty good at this game before I went through all that at the beginning of the season. I’m still pretty damn good, I just had a rough patch. It’s ok. I’m still nice as [hell].”

Only he didn’t say “hell”.

Either way, there’s no doubt about it — Draymond is back to being himself, and that’s great news for Warriors fans and terrible news for the rest of the league.