SAN FRANCISCO — Most of the Warriors had gone home Sunday afternoon. The penultimate practice of the preseason was over. As Andrew Wiggins addressed the media on the top floor of Chase Center, though, he noted one teammate hadn’t left the building.

Stephen Curry, aged 33 with three NBA championships and a pair of MVPs to his name, was nine stories below, in the weight room, going through his usual routine.

“He never stops moving, and he prepares for that,” Wiggins said.

Just a couple days earlier, Curry dropped an easy 41 in the Warriors’ final affair of an undefeated preseason. He led the league in scoring last season, with 32 points per game, then did it again this preseason. Remember, Curry was also the league’s most prolific scorer last preseason, before exploding for the highest scoring average of his career.

His frenetic style of play, his iconic shot, the zeal he has for the game (and Warriors fans for him), none of it has waned, even as Curry enters his 13th season, a year in which he’ll turn 34 and likely eclipse Ray Allen as the NBA’s top all-time 3-point shooter.

Consider the players Curry has passed along the way: Dale Ellis (1,719), Chauncey Billups (1,830), Reggie Miller (2,560), to name a few. (At 2,832, Curry is 142 triples away from overtaking Allen.)

What do they have in common? Smooth jump shots, sure, but also careers that extended well into their late 30s. Ellis, Miller and Allen sank their last shots when they were 39; Billups retired at 37 after a 17-year career. He had a front-row seat for Curry’s 41-point performance as the first-year head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers.

“It’s impressive, man. It’s impressive,” Billups said. “I suspect dudes like him … they’re so good later in their career because their game is just not predicated on athleticism but skill and IQ. As long as you can move, be efficient, you can shoot and you can handle, you can play really late in your career and just kind of outfox people. We’re going to be seeing Steph for a long, long time.”

As Curry stood at the foul line finishing one of two four-point plays in the second half of his 41-point performance, familiar chants rained from the rafters of Chase Center.

M-V-P! M-V-P!

Steve Kerr has only known this Steph. Curry won his first MVP in Kerr’s first season at the helm, in 2014-15, then did it again the next season. Kerr, for his part, played 15 seasons with a 45% success rate from downtown.

“He’s much stronger than he was when he came into the league,” Kerr said. “He’s much better defensively. He’s more durable than ever. He obviously came into the league with a lot of skill, but he’s put everything to use.”

There have only been eight players to three-peat as NBA MVPs. Just four — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain — have won theirs at least six seasons apart. Yet there’s every reason to believe Curry will be in contention for his third MVP trophy.

The Warriors certainly believe so, backed up by the $215 million contract extension Curry signed this offseason. He’ll make $59.6 million in 2026, when Curry will be 38, when even the all-time greats began slowing down.

One name missing so far: LeBron James, a four-time MVP, whom Curry has long admired. James, 36, has been the game’s preeminent superstar since he signed his first professional contract in 2003.

At his parents’ house in Charlotte, he said, Curry still has a signed LeBron jersey. He got it in one of his final years at Davidson, when James came to watch one of his games.

Now, as LeBron enters his 19th season, Curry looks at the way his peer in superstardom has redefined himself late in his career.

“He set the standard for that. Let’s keep it real,” Curry said. “You have a vision of sustaining your prime for as long as you can and kind of reimagining what that looks like. The work that goes into it, the intentionality of it, how you take care of your body, your mind, all that type of stuff.”

The two active players with the most MVP trophies (Giannis Antetokounmpo is tied with Curry, with two) will square off to open the NBA season Tuesday night in Los Angeles.

Rest assured, Curry has been planning this for months.

“It’s a comprehensive plan for Steph every year,” Kerr said. “He maps it out during the summer, and he always arrives where we are right now, going into game one, in great shape.”