If Aaron Gordon doesn’t fall back to earth, he’s going to end the longest drought of Nikola Jokic’s illustrious basketball career.

As you might have heard, Jokic has won three MVP trophies and taken home a championship ring in his 10 NBA seasons, but has never played alongside an all-star in Denver.

That streak ends now.

When Gordon isn’t shooting the three-ball like Steph Curry, he’s dunking like Julius Erving.

Is that any good?

Well, after watching Gordon score 17 points Saturday and threaten to destroy the arena with one of his patented rim-rattling, earth-quaking slams during Denver’s 133-111 thrashing of Phoenix, I’m betting he’s going to have a season too good for the coaches who assemble the rosters for the All-Star Game to ignore.

Yes, Joker is Mr. Everything.

With apologies to John Elway, he’s the greatest athlete to ever wear a uniform for any Colorado sports team.

But AG is Mr. Nugget, the soul of a Nuggets team that makes the heart of every fan beat with that’s-my-dude pride.

“I think the crowd likes him,” Nuggets coach David Adelman said, “because he dunks. A lot.”

Oh, the peeps love those dunks that shake down the Rocky Mountain thunder.

But for the love of Gordon, there’s so much more at work.

“I know this, he has all-star qualities. He’s a winning basketball player,” said Adelman, marveling how AG’s personality exudes California cool as chill as the other side of the pillow.

Against the down-and-lottery-bound Suns, these new-look Nuggets scored 55 points before their three-time MVP scored so much as a free throw.

In between a handful of seeing-eye assists and workmanlike rebounds, he was just another one of the 20,025 spectators in Ball Arena for the home opener. And I’ve seldom seen Jokic look so delighted while wearing a Nuggets uniform.

Until deep into the second quarter, the only shot I saw the big Nuggets center take was fired at a teammate on the Denver bench.

Ever the Joker, he playfully squirted young teammate DaRon Holmes II with the contents of his water bottle.

“Yeah, he got me. He tricked me,” said Holmes, happily confirming how he got pranked.

“He told me there was something stuck on top of his cup. And when I leaned over to look at it, he squirted me. That’s him. He was joking. Like a Joker does. He’s hilarious.”

During the Nuggets’ home-opener, the one forever-memory play against a very forgettable opponent occurred with a little less than two minutes until halftime.

Standing at the top of the key, Jokic made casual eye contact with Gordon, then lobbed a pass toward the rafters with a flick of his wrist.

Standing in the lane with his back to the basket, AG launched with the thrust of a SpaceX rocket. He retrieved the ball from an altitude so high it must have allowed Gordon to momentarily escape the earth’s gravitational pull.

Spinning like a satellite, Gordon made a 180-degree turn above the rim and slammed a one-handed dunk through the hoop with such force it brought the whole house down.

“I was trying to get on Top 10 (plays),” Gordon told Altitude’s Katy Winge in a postgame interview on the court, before imitating ESPN’s trademark theme song. “NaNaNa, NaNaNa.”

While Jamal Murray served as Robin to the Joker’s Batman during the Nuggets run to the franchise’s first championship in 2023, the relentless work Gordon has dedicated to his craft has elevated to become clearly the second deadliest weapon in Denver’s arsenal.

The revamped roster will undoubtedly earn enough wins to merit the Nuggets having two representatives to the All-Star Game.

So perhaps the greatest challenge to Gordon’s candidacy is if the rest of the league will match his own team’s appreciation for an unselfish, unassuming player who has never averaged 20 points or 10 rebounds during 11 previous NBA seasons.

It doesn’t make sense that Gordon has been snubbed for so long.

I asked Adelman: Why hasn’t AG ever been an all-star?

“He should’ve made it a few years ago,” replied Adelman, recalling Gordon’s contribution to the Nuggets being the Western Conference’s No. 1 seed during the year they won the championship. “Sometimes, winning trumps (individual) numbers.”

As you might recall, Gordon scored 50 points in the season-opening loss at Golden State. He richly deserved a game ball, but refused the honor, not wanting a souvenir of anything that might remind him of taking that L on his way out of California.

He gets it. There is no “I” in team … or Gordon.

The 30-year-old power forward loves hoops and takes losing as hard as any die-hard fan.

That’s why AG is one of us.

The people’s champ.

And soon?

The first NBA all-star teammate to bless the sweet basketball life of Jokic.