Rolling with Nuggets center Nikola Jokic is as good as gold, the basketball equivalent of hitting a Powerball jackpot.

Know why teammates love Jokic?

While there’s no denying the magnetism of his goofy humility, the magic of his no-look passes and his ability to lift a team to championship contention, Jokic is more than all that and a bag of chips.

The NBA is all about the Benjamins. And this Joker is his teammates’ get-rich-quick scheme to build generational wealth.

Play with Joker and get the bag.

Whether your name is Kentavious Caldwell-Pope or Bruce Brown, you better make it a duffel bag to stuff all the money the most unselfish player in the world can earn you.

Although not quite sure how time travel through the cosmos works, may I offer a friendly suggestion to the unborn great grandkids of Jamal Murray to begin composing thank-you notes to Jokic?

Murray is the latest beneficiary of having his life enriched by Jokic, especially if you believe the reports, which first surfaced in the Athletic, that Nuggets management is preparing to offer the often-spectacular but more-often-injured guard a four-year contract extension worth a mind-boggling. wallet-stuffing sum of $209 million,

That’s more than 50 million simoleons each and every year for a 27-year-old player that entered the NBA as a rookie way back in 2016 and has yet to establish himself as an all-star.

Please. Don’t get this twisted. I’m not here to hate on Murray. The Nuggets couldn’t have won the lone championship in franchise history without him.

But Murray, who has missed 47 percent of Denver’s regular-season games over the past four seasons, is also living proof that Jokic is indeed the most valuable player in the league.

He inflates the worth of every player that takes the court with him.

Joker is a basketball wizard that sees a game that mere muggles like us can’t even imagine. So kindly allow me to underscore words from Nuggets teammate Aaron Gordon that bear repeating.

“Joker’s a basketball genius,” Gordon said in April, while Denver was making LeBron James and the Lakers look like yesterday’s news. “I mean, he’s just a genius that happens to play basketball. He makes the game very easy. When you think the game (like Jokic), the game unlocks. You can start seeing plays ahead … two, three steps ahead.”

In a nutshell, that’s how Joker creates wealth so effortlessly it could make mega-billionaire Warren Buffett green with envy.

When Jokic is doing Jokic things, easy buckets find teammates like manna from heaven.

Brown joined the Nuggets in 2022 on a contract that paid him a $6.64 million salary and departed town after a year in Joker’s reflected glory with a championship ring and a deal worth $22.5 million annually.

Caldwell-Pope didn’t enjoy getting bounced from the playoffs this spring by Minnesota. But he might’ve been the least upset player in the losing locker room, because KCP might find a 50 percent bump in his $15 million salary as a free agent.

That’s the Joker Effect at work.

Much has been made, by folks inside and outside the walls of Ball Arena, that the Nuggets have the best starting five in basketball.

No offense. But that’s a bunch of hooey.

Jokic and nearly any of 50 (heck, maybe 100) positionally appropriate players could form the best starting lineup in the NBA.

Yes, Jokic is that spectacular. A legend of the game destined to be mentioned in the same breath as Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Shaquille O’Neal.

But I’m also here to gently point out that the Nuggets surrounding Jokic aren’t quite as good as fans like to think or general manager Calvin Booth would have you believe.

Michael Porter Jr. owns one of the sweetest jumpers on the planet. But otherwise, he’s nothing special as NBA athletes go. MPJ doesn’t go to the hole, as his incredibly low rate of drawing fouls suggests. Although he’s worked on defense, it’s meh.

Joker is the stuff of a catch-and-shooter’s dreams. That’s why working the trade market to see what Porter might bring in return isn’t risky. It’s smart shopping.

Gordon is the consummate role player, perfectly happy doing dirty work because he prefers to toil in the shadows rather than the spotlight’s glare.

After listening to Booth praise first-round pick DaRon Holmes II as a natural power forward, it made me wonder if the Nuggets see his immediate future as taking a few rocks off Jokic’s shoulders this season, but have a long-term plan for him to replace Gordon as a starter if the veteran opts to explore free agency in 2025.

We all love the competitive fire of Murray and his fearlessness under pressure. But as sidekick’s go, he’s not the Robin that Scottie Pippen was in Michael Jordan’s bat cave.

It’s Jokic that makes his tandem with Murray the best two-man game in the business.

Under current terms of the collective bargaining agreement, in which Nuggets president Josh Kroenke suggests it’s hard to build out a roster with more than two max contracts, putting more than $200 million in faith on Murray’s legs to keep the championship window of Jokic wedged wide open is risky business.

Remember how quarterback Peyton Manning could make all his receivers look open? Nuggets management needs to keep its eyes wide open to how Jokic inflates the worth of every teammate.

Pull the handle of the NBA slot machine and watch your fortune come up Joker-Joker-Joker as a teammate?

You’re one lucky dawg.

Having the MV3 on your side means you’ve hit the jackpot.