Keeler: Nuggets owe Nikola Jokic one voice, one vision. And at least one more All-Star.

All I want for Christmas is to see Nikola Jokic play with an All-Star before I die.

Please, Santa. Keep the pony. Keep the Porsche. Keep the PS5.

Give me a second Nuggets All-Star.

Give me twin titans in blue and gold. Give me Magic and Kareem. MJ and Scottie. Give me basketball’s Butch and Sundance, repping the best dang sports town on Earth in February, then scaring the crapola out of the Western Conference come April and May.

Oh, and one more thing, Santa. Give me a general manager with the guts, the vision and the chutzpah to make it happen.

Give me a general manager blessed with a tongue smooth enough to convince Stan Kroenke to give his blessing — then get the heck out of the way.

The Nuggets owe Joker an All-Star. They also owe him a power structure with one vision and one voice.

Yes, ex-coach Michael Malone had a down (and puzzling) year by his standards. He also deserved a classier exit than the latest NBA pink slip in 44 years. Josh Kroenke was right on this front, though: Malone and Calvin Booth couldn’t go on working under the same roof.

Drafting guys your coach won’t play was a waste of everybody’s time — Jokic’s most of all. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Or play defense. Or watch film, apparently.

From here on out? Everything should be on the table. And, Joker aside, everyone.

The Nuggets need big thinkers and big swings to go deep into the playoffs again.

For eight years, we’ve watched Jokic turn “meh” players into good ones (love ya, Will Barton). We’ve watched him turn good players into great ones (take a bow, Jamal Murray).

But we haven’t seen what The Best Player On The Planet looks like when he’s got a wingman with serious, honest-to-goodness NBA gravitas running alongside.

And no, a 36-year-old Russell Westbrook doesn’t count, Santa. I mean, 2017 or 2019 Russ? Sure. We’re talking somebody else in their prime. Somebody who makes the “A” block on SportsCenter.

They owe him, Santa.

This organization owes Jokic a serious run at another ring. A serious run with serious stars — and a serious GM.

Otherwise? If the Nuggets aren’t careful, he could ask for the next ticket outta here.

The Joker could go coastal, the way LeBron James did after pretty much single-handedly putting Cleveland on the map.

There are about a half-dozen NBA bluebloods that would love to do to Denver what the Lakers just did to the Mavericks in that Luka Doncic heist.

Historically speaking, players whose profiles are considered “too good” or “too big” for a certain NBA market tend not to stay in said “not-big-enough” market. The agents, the TV execs and assorted string-pullers behind the scenes have spent decades funneling The Association’s biggest stars onto the league’s biggest stages. By design.

The Joker is a different cat. But the forces tugging on the king’s robe, the ones whispering into his ear, are motivated by the same things they always have been.

Jokic? Dude just wants to win. Now. He turns 31 next February. No. 50 is in the kind of shape, mentally and physically, where he could do this forever. He shouldn’t have to wait that long for his next best shot at a ring.

And the Kroenkes shouldn’t fool themselves into thinking that simply removing Malone and Booth will solve whatever ails this franchise. Tuesday was merely Deck-chair Liberation Day. The Titanic’s still sinking, and the icebergs are everywhere. Job’s not done.

Are the Nuggets due for a dead cat bounce? Probably. But on the whole, this thing — this season, this roster, this iteration — is done. Flush it. Start over.

Sure, the only way Michael Porter Jr. probably passes a physical with another team is if Mr. Magoo’s reading the charts. But by golly, you’ve gotta try.

The Thunder have two All-Stars. So do the Mavs. The Celtics and Bucks landed two; the Cavs have three. Why not give the Joker a fair fight?

The Nuggets don’t need a soft reset — they need a reboot. They need a GM with experience. Ideally, they find someone who can get the Nuggets’ good-but-not-great players on great-player contracts off the books with one hand while navigating an NBA CBA purposefully designed to stonewall dynasties with the other.

Former Warriors exec Bob Myers would tick most of those front-office boxes. So would Dennis Lindsey in Detroit. Alas, those two feel like longshots as long as Stan Kroenke prefers to promote from within rather than bid on top-shelf front office talent.

The Kroenkes could argue that the insular approach got the franchise its only ring. It also got one of the most frustrating, dysfunctional title defenses in league history, a 2023-24 season that’s only going to look more damning, in hindsight, for all the parties involved.

If Stan and Josh aren’t content with simply winning one Larry O’Brien Trophy, now’s their chance to show it.

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