The biggest Nets crowd ever at Barclays Center saw Steph Curry draw cheers of MVP and send the home team crashing to a sixth straight defeat.

And most were fine with that.

That’s the type of season it has been, as seen in Brooklyn’s 121-119 defeat to the Warriors in front of a record crowd of 18,413. The loss impacts the team’s record but potentially benefits their draft position.

The Nets raced out to a 22-point cushion only to see Curry (game-high 40 points, 7-of-13 from deep) erase it one long-range bomb at a time.

And when it was over, Brooklyn (21-41) had fallen three games behind victorious Chicago for the final Eastern Conference play-in spot.

But more importantly, they had kept pace with Philadelphia in a tie for sixth in the lottery standings and moved within a game of No. 5 Toronto.

Cam Johnson led the Nets with 26 points, while Cam Thomas added 23 and seven assists.

The Warriors (35-28) got 25 points, six assists and much-needed grit from Jimmy Butler, who is 10-1 in their lineup since being acquired from Miami.

Brooklyn buried the Warriors early — they just forgot to kill them first.

Brooklyn started strong, surging to a 27-5 lead with 4:39 remaining in the first quarter after a Nic Claxton hook shot. Claxton contributed eight points, nine rebounds, and a career-best 10 assists.

Brooklyn hit a white-hot 10 of its first 11 shots and harassed the Warriors into missing 11 of their first 13 with five turnovers.

But it didn’t last.

Despite maintaining a 56-42 lead with three minutes left in the half, the Nets faltered against a Golden State surge. They yielded 10 consecutive points in just 1:23, allowing their lead to shrink to only four points.

A Curry 38-foot turnaround with 0.3 left in the half over a double team and the outstretched arms of the 6-foot-8 Johnson and 6-foot-9 Ziaire Williams — absurd even by his standards — made it 60-55 at the break.

And that huge early lead officially was gone when Butler capped a 10-2 run with a 3-pointer that put Brooklyn in a 68-65 hole with 9:20 left in the third.

Brooklyn steadied the ship and clawed back ahead but gave up a 17-6 run that spanned into the fourth and essentially ended the contest.

The Nets trailed 97-91 with 7 ½ minutes left and couldn’t get over the hump.

They got within 119-117 on Thomas’ 35-footer with 10 seconds left, but no closer.

Noah Clowney has had his first 5-on-5 workout as he tries to return from his ankle injury.