Red-hot Curry leads Warriors past Nets

Sixty points in a defeat? Or 29 points in a win?

That’s an easy choice for a four-time NBA champion like Stephen Curry.

Two nights after torching Atlanta in defeat with one of the highest-scoring performances of his career, Curry saved his best for last Monday night in front of a sellout crowd of 17,919 fans at Downtown’s Barclays Center.

The 2022 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player went 12-of-24 from the floor, including the only four 3-pointers Golden State made all night, and put up 12 points over the final seven minutes to hand Brooklyn a 109-98 loss.

“It was ugly on both sides,” Curry noted. “But I think everybody was trying to execute and trying to settle into the style of the game, and then thankfully in the second half we made the right adjustments and took control and never looked back.”

Curry, who fell two points shy of his career best in an overtime loss to the Hawks on Saturday, joined the rest of the Warriors (22-25) in being stone cold from everywhere in the first half, falling behind 49-43.

But power forward Jonathan Kuminga and the future Hall of Famer took over thereafter.

Kuminga finished with 28 points and 10 rebounds, scoring on consecutive trips after the Nets (20-29) cut the deficit to 84-80 on a 3-pointer by Royce O’Neale with 7:37 left in regulation.

The Warriors, who outscored the Nets 66-49 following intermission, watched Curry do his thing down the stretch.

The 35-year-old 10-time All-Star hit a floater, drained a step-back 28-footer, drove for a layup off a feed from Draymond Green, drilled a short jumper and converted a three-point play with 1:19 to go that gave Golden State a 105-94 cushion.

Brandin Podziemski amassed 15 points and 11 boards for the Warriors, who grabbed 60 rebounds, the most by any Net opponent this year, and scored 72 points in the paint to offset their poor outside…