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Before Monday night’s playoff-atmosphere-juiced game even got under way, it was obvious that Andre Iguodala would get the game ball for suiting up for the 1,200th time in his career.

The Warriors might have to split the ball in half.

Stephen Curry deserves some lasting memorabilia from a game that he wouldn’t let the Warriors lose early and eventually secured with a captivating third quarter in a 127-113 victory at Chase Center.

“I want to say I’ve never seen anything like it, but I’ve been watching this for seven years. So I have,” head coach Steve Kerr said of Curry.

Curry had his 10th career 50-point game, reaching that mark on 9-for-19 3-point shooting, 10 assists and seven rebounds to make a winner of Iguodala as he returned from missing Sunday’s game because of “left hip injury management” to put himself in esteemed NBA company.

Iguodala is the 47th player in league history to play 1,200 regular-season games and one of only three active players to reach the milestone. Joining LeBron James (1,316) and Carmelo Anthony (1,202) on the active list, the 37-year-old also has played 170 career playoff games, including making it to the postseason each of the past 11 seasons.

“He’s just a brilliant, brilliant two-way player,” Kerr said. “He just keeps our guys moving in the same direction and connected.”

It sure looks like Iguodala, who had three dunks on a six-point night, will make it 12 in a row with the Warriors (9-1). They’re leading the NBA standings and defensive ratings after missing the postseason for consecutive years without him.

On a night when the Warriors were missing two of their top assistant coaches — Mike Brown (non-coronavirus-related illness) and Kenny Atkinson (leg) — and Otto Porter Jr., who is expected to return from foot-injury management Wednesday, Golden State fed off the energy of its late-arriving crowd.

Six games into an eight-game homestand, with games Wednesday against Minnesota and Friday against Chicago before hitting the road, the Warriors have already taken advantage of the home cooking.

The Warriors went into Monday’s game topping the league in point margin (plus-13.7 points per game) — one of only two teams in the league beating opponents by a double-digit average (Miami, 11.4).

The numbers somehow were boosted even as the schedule toughened against the Eastern Conference finalists. Atlanta (4-7) had lost three in a row and five its past six games, but it has plenty of talent and is led by head coach Nate McMillan, who is preaching three C’s — calm, clear and connected — required to win ballgames.

The Hawks showed much of it, getting 28 points and nine assists from Trae Young and 19 points from John Collins, but they couldn’t stop the other “C.” Curry had 18 points and five assists in a third quarter to reverse what had been a 15-point second-quarter deficit into a 102-85 advantage.

After finding Juan Toscano-Anderson for a left wing 3-pointer that extended the Warriors’ lead to 17 points in the closing seconds of the third quarter, Curry raced to the other end of the court and bounded up and down like a kangaroo as the sellout crowd unleashed its loudest roars of the night.

Curry had tried to mount one of his remarkable flurries in the early game, knowing his squad was without some of its key contributors. He scored the Warriors’ first 13 points, with no one else getting on the board until Curry found Wiggins for a dunk and a 15-14 lead at the 5:50 mark. About the only thing that could stop Curry was that he appeared to tweak his shoulder and had to get it evaluated.

Shedding an oversized heating pad, Curry checked back into the game with Atlanta leading 29-22 and 3:14 remaining in the first quarter. By the end of the first quarter, which included Jonathan Kuminga for a three-minute cameo, the Warriors had trimmed the deficit to two points.

The Warriors, who came into the night pacing the NBA in scoring at 113.9 points per game, made it look like that stat was improbable during parts of the second quarter. They went without a field goal for a 2 ½-minute stretch that included a shot-clock violation and fell behind 55-40.

In a foreshadowing, Curry had eight points and two assists in the half’s closing 3:09 to cut it to 65-61 before the break. On a night when he already had six 3-pointers, Curry’s second three-point trip to the foul line tied it 73-73 with 8:32 remaining in the third quarter.

The game’s best point guard went on to score 18 points in the third quarter, shooting 4-for-7 from the floor and 8-for-8 from the foul line. The Warriors outscored the Hawks by 19 points during his 10-plus, third-court minutes.

Kerr let Curry play inside the four-minute mark of the fourth quarter to drill a floater for an even 50 points and a 23-point lead. The bucket linked Curry to Wilt Chamberlain and Rick Barry, the only other players in franchise history with a 50-point, 10-assist game.

Rusty Simmons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: rsimmons@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Rusty_SFChron