We don’t know yet if the stars — or, heck, the dollars — are aligned for Paul Millsap. But we know this: The Denver Nuggets want him back.

“Our goal and Paul’s goal is to have him back with us,” Tim Connelly, the Nuggets’ president of basketball operations, said of the Nuggets’ veteran power forward during a news conference at the Pepsi Center Tuesday.

Which brings us to the elephant in the room: At what price?

The Nuggets hold a $30.1-million team option on Millsap for next season; after 2019-20, the 34-year-old power forward could become an unrestricted free agent.

If the team elects to pick up Millsap’s option, the forward would have the highest projected cap number on the 2019-20 roster, according to Spotrac.com, followed by All-Star center Nikola Jokic ($27.4 million), shooting guard Gary Harris ($17.8 million) and backup center Mason Plumlee ($14.04 million). Millsap also accounted for the Nuggets’ highest cap hit this past season, at $29.38 million after signing a two-year, $61-million deal in July 2017.

“From how I want to do it, and how I want my story to be told, (this is) definitely the group that can help me do it,” Millsap, who averaged 12.6 points and 7.2 rebounds and 1.2 steals, said last week.

“That’s definitely a dream and a goal of mine (to win a title). I think it’s the goal for everybody, especially the younger guys.”

The four-time All-Star, who’d signed a two-year, $61-million deal with a third-year team option in July 2017, was also somewhat coy when asked about his future last week, joking that he “could go to the Golden State Warriors.”

“For me, (I’m) not really trying to prove everybody wrong,” said Millsap, who was sidelined in December with a broken toe after missing 44 games in 2017-18 with a wrist injury. “But prove to myself that I can do it my way and still win. I can do it with whoever I want to do it with. I ain’t got to be with the Golden State Warriors or the Lakers or whatever. I can help a young, talented team reach that goal.”

Connelly clearly values the leadership, intangibles and defense — especially the defense — that the veteran forward brought to help a young squad emerge as a power in the NBA’s loaded Western Conference. The former Louisiana Tech star posted a defensive efficiency rating of 106 — as in 106 points allowed over 100 opponent possessions, according to Basketball-Reference.com. That was the best defensive rating of any Nuggets forward, and the third best defensive rating among the top nine players in coach Michael Malone’s rotation.

But questions have been raised about Millsap’s age and his occasional fades at critical postseason moments. The veteran was a combined 7-for-28 from the floor in Games 6 and 7 of the Western Conference semifinals against Portland, both losses. For the series Millsap averaged 17.4 points and 8.7 boards in seven games.

“We both want the same thing,” Connelly stressed. “We’ll figure out the best way for the organization and Paul to make sure that’s achieved. I fully expect Paul to be back in a Nuggets uniform.”