TORONTO — It’s “The Canadian Klaw” versus “The Dynasty.”

Canada is all about basketball this week as it hosts its first NBA Finals game Thursday at Scotiabank Arena. Kawhi Leonard’s underdog Raptors battle a Warriors juggernaut that still looks like a monster despite missing Kevin Durant since late in the second round.

Durant is out indefinitely with a calf strain, but the great Leonard and the Toronto gang still must find a way to derail the spectacular talent and chemistry of the Splash Brothers, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, and sizzling Draymond Green.

Curry didn’t sound worried on the eve of the team’s fifth straight Finals appearance, even as Durant’s status remains in limbo, even with the potential breakup of the dynasty on the horizon with Durant’s and Thompson’s free agency.

“I would say just this entire year has been kind of wild for us, chasing the same goal, but doing it with a lot of noise around us,’’ Curry said at Wednesday’s media day. “To be able to start here in Toronto against a different opponent in our fifth straight Finals creates a great edge for us. I like the energy that we’re coming in with for Game 1.”

Edge? Only the mouth-guard-chewing point guard would call that an edge entering a Finals series minus Durant, who has averaged 31.7 points in NBA Finals action, the third-best mark ever.

“Just keep doing what we’re doing,’’ said Curry, whose Warriors swept the Blazers in the Western Conference finals. “Doing it by committee. We have had amazing contributions from everybody on the bench. Draymond continues to do what he’s doing in terms of dominating both sides of the floor. Just play with confidence, play fast, play loose and play disciplined.’’

Perhaps only Leonard’s two-way brilliance can stop Golden State from a third straight title and fourth in five years. He has shown what a superstar is supposed to look like in the playoffs — a clutch game-decider in the fourth quarter.

Leonard is arguably the league’s best defender, has been spot-on from mid-range and has done all the intangibles during this breakthrough Toronto playoff run. And Durant is not around yet to defend him.

None of it may sway Leonard to re-sign, but Toronto fans are savoring the historic moment.

“[Leonard] has been playing amazing this whole playoff run and really all season,’’ Curry said. “He’s always at his own pace and never seems to get rushed or be in a hurry.’’

When Green was asked about Leonard’s defense birthing the moniker, “The Klaw,’’ Green said, “I think he got that nickname because he has some of the largest hands we all have seen. However, his defense is great.’’

Riding Leonard, rising star Pascal Siakam’s activity, Kyle Lowry’s point-guard poise and a deep bench is the Raptors’ chance of making this a series, especially if KD misses much of it or returns rusty.

But the Warriors seem to have played with a different spirit since KD went down. In fact, Knicks fans should hope the Warriors sweep the Raptors without Durant. That figures to give Durant another push out the door, if he sees his value to them — and his legacy — as diminished.

“They are not better without Durant, but they are more varied and thus more dangerous,’’ one NBA advance scout told The Post. “It’s a subtle distinction.

“Durant is more than willing to share, but he’s such an easy fallback when things get tough. Without him, everybody is more focused. Also they put immense strain on any defense because without Durant, even if you get the ball out of Curry’s hands, they can run pick-and-roll with Green as the decision-maker. And he’s a great decision-maker.”

As is Leonard, who won the Finals MVP in 2014 for San Antonio when the Spurs beat LeBron James’ Miami Dream Team.

“Five years later he’s probably a little bit older and wiser,’’ Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.

If he’s not as much a household name as Durant or Curry, that’s fine with the soft-spoken Leonard.

“I’m not playing the game for that reason,’’ Leonard said. “I’m playing to have fun and try to be the best player I can be. I’m happy what I have done in my career. It’s not about me being famous or want to have more fame than those guys.”

The advance scout said the Finals opponents have the league’s “highest basketball IQs.” Hence, this could be a dogfight and chess match in one of the NBA’s loudest arenas. Toronto has put hockey aside for now and it seems most of the U.S. is rooting for the first-timers from north of the border.

“It’s going to be crazy here tomorrow, going to be crazy Sunday and crazy the next few days,’’ Raptors GM Masai Ujiri said.

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