Time eventually catches up to everyone, but Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors are running away as fast as they can. 

Few expected much of Golden State this season, given the advanced age of a core that includes Curry (38), Draymond Green (36) and Al Horford (40), along with an injured Jimmy Butler (37) who is expected to debut by January at the earliest. However, the Warriors have defied these expectations. 

After an 0-3 start, they have won six straight, the latest a 120-100 home blowout of the Miami Heat and Warriors legend Klay Thompson. At 6-3, Golden State has moved up to seventh in the West, only a full game behind the top teams, the 6-1 Portland Trail Blazers and the 7-2 Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets.

Curry has been the driving force once again, as he has been for almost two decades. He is averaging 29.9 points, 3.7 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.3 steals per game, shooting 46.9 percent from the field, 44 percent from three and 98.2 percent at the line. His 68.3 percent true shooting would be a career high, besting the 67.5 percent he set in 2018, and his scoring average is at its  highest since 2021. If he keeps it up, it would be the third-highest scoring mark of his career, behind only 2021 and 2016. These numbers are already impressive in themself, but even more when considering that Curry is already 38 years old.

He is also getting help from his younger teammates. 

Rookie Yaxel Lendeborg, 24, is averaging 21.5 points, second on the team to Curry, and has given Golden State a second reliable scorer that they have been missing for years. Fourth-year guard Brandin Podziemski, who at 23 is still younger than Lendeborg, has stepped up as well. He is third in scoring at 17 points per game, along with five rebounds and five assists.

The emergence of those two has helped the Warriors find balance beyond their older veterans, and it seems to have rejuvenated Curry as well. Golden State has long been trying to add younger players for exactly this reason, and it finally seems to have a promising group to support Curry in his last few years in the league, as well as the franchise for when he eventually retires.

Curry is playing at an all-world level despite his advanced age, and the youthful energy of this team seems to have played a definitive role in this. Whether the Warriors have another deep playoff run in them or if this is just an early season mirage remains to be seen, but the early evidence points to a team that has found a workable blend of experience and energy. His early season production suggests the older core still has plenty left to offer, even in this present day. A scoring average at its highest in five years from a 38-year-old is certainly a strong indicator that he can still hang with the best of them. 

Father Time may still be undefeated, but Curry is making sure that he has to work for this victory.