Despite nearly 50 years of frustration, a pro basketball season can end with a victory parade in Denver.

It is possible for the Nuggets to bring the NBA championship to town.

This team is closer than you think. All the Nuggets need is a legitimate star. And they have the resources to get one.

Show me the Love. Bring all-star forward Kevin Love to Denver.

After dealing with injury, the harsh Minnesota winters and the ineptitude of Timberwolves management, Love’s relationship is on the rocks with his current team.

Here’s the starting lineup I want to see in Denver.

PG: Ty Lawson

SG: Andre Iguodala

SF: Kenneth Faried

PF: Love

C: JaVale McGee

Love, a gold medalist with the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, would immediately improve the reliability of Denver’s half-court offense. Giving McGee a starter’s role would make the Nuggets more athletic. Sign J.J. Redick or Kyle Korver as a reasonably priced free agent, and Denver would have its designated shooter on the bench.

Here’s the trade I propose.

Send Nuggets starters Danilo Gallinari and Kosta Koufos to Minnesota for Love.

Might the Wolves squawk about Gallinari’s injured knee? Of course. But Love is coming off a broken hand and knee surgery of his own. Might Minnesota prefer Wilson Chandler or Evan Fournier over Koufos? Massage the deal. Might new Wolves president Flip Saunders go to work on his relationship with Love and turn down any trade offer? Sure.

But here’s the point.

The idea no superstar will ever play in Denver is bunk. Nuggets general manager Masai Ujiri has carefully stockpiled sufficient assets to make a blockbuster deal possible.

If the deal is not for Love, Ujiri can find another way to make Denver a legit contender.

“I’ll figure it out,” Ujiri told me less than an hour after the Nuggets were bounced from the playoffs by Golden State.

So stop your moping, coach George Karl. Drop the defeatist attitude, Denver.

The Nuggets can win it all.