The Warriors faced their biggest deficit of the game for 1.1 seconds and 44 feet of the court.

Steph Curry, down 17 as Orlando shot the lights out, took a dribble and launched a heave from beyond halfcourt, swishing in a miracle at the end of the first half.

That was one of Curry’s 12 3-pointers and tipped off a 40-14 Warriors run that flipped the game. Behind Curry’s best game of the year, the Warriors (32-27) came back for a 121-115 win over the Magic to start their five-game road trip.

Curry dropped a season-high 56 points, his highest-scoring game since last February’s 60-bomb in Atlanta. He’s registered three 50-point games since turning 35 years old, the most all-time. He needed just 34 minutes to do it, going 16-for-25 from the field and 12-for-19 from deep while sinking all 12 of his foul shots.

“For us to win this game, it obviously took all those points, but it took a collective resilience that I love that we showed tonight,” Curry said in his on-court interview with NBC Sports Bay Area. “It would’ve been easy to lay down in the first game of a road trip down (17), but we all clawed back.”

The Warriors rode Curry’s 16-point second quarter, 22-point third and crunch-time flurry to their fifth straight victory. Quinten Post also chipped in a crucial 18 points off the bench.

Orlando’s Paolo Banchero finished with 41 points, but Curry was the one getting M-V-P chants at the end of the game in his Kia Center.

It looked like the type of game the Warriors would’ve had no chance coming back in. They trailed by double digits for almost the entire first half and Banchero hit 10 of his 12 shots to score 24 first-half points. The Magic, the worst jump shooting team in the league, were hitting everything; they shot 83.3% in the first quarter, the highest mark of a Warriors opponent all year.

But these Warriors are so much better than the ones from earlier this season. They’re invigorated, with a new life thanks to the addition of Jimmy Butler.