Imagine removing Kevin Durant, perhaps the best basketball player in the world, and having a team good enough to keep on winning.

Imagine removing Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, two of the great power hitters in the world, and having a team deep enough to keep hitting homers same as ever.

Let’s ratchet up the degree of difficulty for the 2019 Yankees. Cut out not just Judge and Stanton, but the team’s best lefty power bats, Didi Gregorius and Aaron Hicks. Throw in Miguel Andujar, too. Those were the top five home-run hitters on a 2018 Yankee team that set the major league record for most homers in a season.

Through 55 games this season, that quintet had combined for 204 plate appearances and six homers — five by Judge — after combining for 50 homers in 1,084 plate appearances in the same period last year.

So where were they after 55 games?

The 2018 Yankees had 90 homers.

The 2019 Yankees had 90 homers.

Now, the 2019 team has advantages. In general, the ball is flying even more this year than last. Consider that despite having the same homer total through 55 games as they did in a year when they hit a record 267, the Yanks were just sixth in the majors in homers entering Thursday.

There also is a Baltimore factor. The Yankees had played 21.8 percent of their games against the Orioles, yet hit 40 percent of their homers — 36 homers in 12 games. The Orioles had allowed 117 homers in all, the same as the 2014 Padres — in an entire season.

Still, this is a Yankees club that has received little — and in the case of Gregorius nothing — from a fivesome that hit 146 homers in 2018. Troy Tulowitzki, who the Yanks hoped would bring shortstop heft during Gregorius’ rehab, also has been mainly on the injured list.

And the Yanks have manufactured homers without those sluggers or capitalizing fully on their home park. Even with four homers hit Wednesday in a Bronx victory over the Padres, the Yankees’ slugging percentage was .431 at home — 43 points lower than last year. But they had a .473 slugging percentage on the road, 43 points better than last season. That in part reflects the absence of the lefty bats of Gregorius and Hicks, even as the Yankees’ righty bats are generally excellent at capitalizing on the short right-field porch.

The Yanks have not slugged higher on the road than home since 2003 and last had as much as a 42-point differential road to home in 1998, when it was 50. They went to the World Series in 2003 and won it in 1998.

So why has this team missing so much muscle continued to flex?

“Go look at the Warriors,” Austin Romine said. “How many of their guys’ numbers improved [with Durant out]. When you have good players they step up. Look at how [Clint] Frazier, [Luke] Voit, Gio [Urshela] and Gleyber [Torres] have stepped up. You look at both situations, the Warriors and [Yankees], and guys stepped up to do more.”

It speaks well to the Yankees’ depth and culture that the next man up has kept the offense performing well. The Yanks averaged 5.65 runs per game in 2018 and 5.38 so far in 2019.

The scoring has stayed high because the homers have remained steady because Gary Sanchez has rebounded, Voit has demonstrated he was no Maas-ian fluke, Torres’ whole game has matured, Frazier has shown his bat speed is not just a sentence on a scouting report and the Yankees’ version of Quinn Cook, Kevon Looney and Alfonzo McKinnie have provided value.

“We are missing big guys but those filling in aren’t zeroes,” Brett Gardner said. “We have a lot of depth and a lot of guys capable of impacting the baseball.”

The 2019 Yankees have not sunk with so much firepower absent because they have a lot of Warriors.