You shouldn’t need a reminder of Steph Curry’s greatness, but we all received one late Saturday night.

The biggest and most shocking NBA trade in recent memory will have ramifications that will be felt for decades.

Trading a perennial MVP candidate at 25 years old is a statement.

For the Dallas Mavericks, a team that played in the NBA Finals this past June, the statement was that they don’t trust Luka Doncic.

With a “supermax” $69 million a year contract extension looming in Doncic’s future and with well-known concerns over his conditioning (perhaps contributing to absences on the court), the Mavs decided to sell him for 50 cents on the dollar, picking up Anthony Davis (that bastion of health), a few bit players, and one of the Lakers’ two tradable first-round picks.

Does this make the Lakers better? Maybe. Sure, they no longer have a rim protector, but they added one of the league’s brightest stars, who should (that’s the operative word here) be entering his peak.Does this make the Mavericks better? For the next year or two, perhaps. They still have Kyrie Irving, after all.

The situation highlights two things that pertain to the Warriors.

The first is to never take Curry’s excellence — on or off the court — for granted.

Since Curry signed what turned out to be the most team-friendly contract in the history of the NBA in 2012 (four years, $44 million), the Dubs have never needed to give a second thought to paying him every penny he could possibly earn under the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement.

Even now, when Curry is on the career decline and halfway through what is effectively a five-year, $278 million contract that runs until the end of the 2026-27 season, there is little doubt he’s worth every penny.

Say what you will about the Warriors’ current standing. Heaven knows I’ve exhausted myself on that.

But where would the Warriors be without him?

Praying for lottery balls to bounce their way in May.

Instead, the Warriors can still fancy themselves “in it.”

And, once again, in case the severity of the situation hasn’t sunk in just yet — the reigning Western Conference champions just totally freaked out and traded away their franchise cornerstone without much logical impetus.

They didn’t even bother to shop him around the league. (The Warriors could have made a competitive offer.)

But Dallas’ inability to commit to Doncic is all the more reason for the Warriors to commit to Curry in ways beyond general wealth.

If a 25-year-old who has been a five-time All-NBA honoree — a player who before Saturday was considered untradable — isn’t worth full commitment, then that bar is impossibly high.

Or, to put it another way, there’s no such thing as a “future” in the NBA if a player such as Doncic (for all his downsides) isn’t considered a player worth a max contract by an unquestionably successful team.

(For all the deserved skewering of the Mavericks for this deal, some deference needs to be provided, too. They should know Doncic better than anyone, and their annoyance with him, particularly in the last 18 months, hasn’t exactly been a close-kept secret.)

Meanwhile, the Warriors are holding on to their “future” with a level of preciousness that’s actively harming their present.

This brings us to the second lesson of the Doncic trade. It’s not a new one:

The Warriors are never going to land another Steph Curry. At least not in the next decade or so.

And no, they’re not going to land a Doncic, either.

That’s just not how the NBA works.

The Celtics and Lakers dominated the ’80s and stunk in the ’90s.

The Bulls dominated the ’90s and stunk in the new millennium’s first decade. The Knicks didn’t even win a title in that era and have been trying to reach their level of play for 25 years since.

How’d the Lakers do at the end of the Kobe Bryant era? How’d the Spurs do after Tim Duncan retired?

This league is one of incredible highs and lows. Some teams can stave off the latter better than others — the Lakers, it seems, are blessed by the basketball gods, whereas the Heat have an excellent program for sustained quality — but there’s only so much one can do.

It’s best to make the most of Curry while he can still do what he’s doing.

I’m a broken record on this, but the good news is that there are only a few days left to say it: Curry turns 37 years old in a matter of weeks. One could argue his days as a title-winning player are over, but the fact that it’s an argument speaks volumes.

The NBA trade deadline is on Thursday. As of Sunday morning, the Warriors are four games back of the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference.

No one is advocating for a trade like the Mavericks just made — a rash, perhaps even “desperate” move. Don’t toss five first-round picks onto the table for Zion Williamson.

But in a world where Doncic can be traded, there’s no reason not to be aggressive.

And there’s even less of a reason not to maximize what time Curry has left.

Clearly, they do not make superstars like him anymore.