With the start of Hanukkah and Christmas less than two weeks away, many of us are neck-deep in holiday shopping for all the the loved ones and mostly tolerated work associates in our lives. (Some of us are also way, way behind.) Emboldened by the spirit of the season and an unquenchable desire to win others’ love by giving them gifts, this week’s Four Corners roundtable asks: What one thing would you most like to give an NBA team this holiday season?

Here is what’s on the Ball Don’t Lie staff’s wish lists. Share your answers in the comments below.

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No more Clippys in L.A.

This …

… is a terrible uniform. The uniform looks that way because of its terrible logo …

… which this guy …

… decided to introduce on “Conan” a couple of years ago after we’d held out hope for weeks that the leaked design was a hoax. A distraction. A real rum-rum. A Cincinnati How-Do-Ya-Do. Still quoting Conan, here.

You usually get used to new jersey designs, even bad ones. Rarely, though, is a logo and uniform as brilliant and as often ranked so highly as this …

… replaced with something as terrible as this:

It’s a tank job. It’s a drop from, say, third in the rankings to 30. Think of a team like the Philadelphia 76ers, and imagine that they’d played like, well, the Clippers last year. That’s the difference.

Please, Clippers, take this (old) logo:

… because classics never go out of style.

(Also, Santa doesn’t give out small forwards. I asked, back in 2002.) — Kelly Dwyer

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Mass healing — or, at least, healing in Mass.

I’m wishing the Boston Celtics good health this holiday season, because it’s the charitable thing to do.

Also, I’m selfish.

I want to watch the roster that was supposed to compete for a No. 2 seed actually play basketball together. Evaluating the Celtics has been impossible this season. Two or more of their top seven guys were injured for the first 12 games, they’ve been without at least one of their two best players for half the season, and Isaiah Thomas will miss the entirety of what was supposed to be a fun three-game set against the Toronto Raptors, Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs.

Boston’s starting lineup ranks among the NBA’s most efficient five-man units, outscoring opponents by 11.2 points per 100 possessions, but they’ve only played 10 games together. They’re 7-3 in those contests, with each loss coming down to the final minute. Yet, the Celtics could be a .500 team when Thomas returns from his groin injury, and we’re nearly a third of the way into 2016-17.

Every squad has its injury woes (the Memphis Grizzlies jump to mind), but the East desperately needs a challenger to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Raptors could be that team, although their 0-3 record against the reigning champs would indicate otherwise, and Toronto has been relatively healthy. The Celtics might be that team, too, but the only time they’ve played the Cavs this season, they were without Al Horford and Jae Crowder, so we have no idea who they are.

All I want for Christmas, I guess, is the best two seed possible. And while Santa’s delivering health to the Celtics, drop DeMarcus Cousins down Boston’s chimney, too, and really make spirits bright. — Ben Rohrbach

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Holiday hair care in Houston

I was going to get a case of Dr. Z’s Old Tyme Aphrodisical Health Tonic for the Utah Jazz, who, Ben’s Boston bawling aside, have been more significantly impacted by injury than any other NBA team through 25 games. But I found out that wouldn’t actually revive all of Utah’s important banged-up dudes, because it’s just a beer. Also, I don’t want to get anybody in trouble in Utah.

Instead, my gift-giving gaze turned to Houston, where Mike D’Antoni will be receiving a Harry’s Winston Set, a Dollar Shave Club Smooth Shave Bundle, and a Bevel Essentials soft goods set. (I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I couldn’t pick just one. If his point guard ever decides to change course, Mike can always share.)

Like many longtime lovers of the fast-paced coach’s signature facial hair, I was somewhat chagrinned when he turned up in Houston this summer upper lip completely unadorned, the result of either losing a bet with his wife or just feeling a need for something different after all those years of soup-straining.

“It got old, like me,” D’Antoni said in a June interview with Sports Talk 790 in Houston. “It had to come off. It was time. Plus, I don’t think Pringles was paying me anymore, so I’m done.”

Disconcerting though it might be for us watching from home, it’s hard to argue with the results of D’Antoni’s turn-back-the-clocks move. The Rockets have been awesome, posting the NBA’s fourth-most explosive offense and racing out to an 18-7 start despite what most strength-of-schedule metrics agree has been one of the league’s 10 toughest opening slates. James Harden is back to MVP-contending form, Eric Gordon and Ryan Anderson are healthy and lighting it up, last year’s dire vibes have been exorcised, and D’Antoni might be the Coach of the Year. Houston looks and feels fresh, clean, reborn … just like its coach’s countenance.

Some day, perhaps, Mike will decide he misses his old friend enough to stop shaving. For now, I’ll support his quest for new beginnings by helping him stay moisturized and smooth through the long, cold NBA winter. — Dan Devine

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Um … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am giving the Denver Nuggets a $25 gift card. Yes, it’s an impersonal gift. But sometimes the gift-giver has no recourse but to give up and admit he doesn’t know what the recipient likes, let alone needs.

Everything I know about the Nuggets comes secondhand. The standings tell me they are 9-16, 11th in the West and in line for a draft pick somewhere in the middle of the lottery. That seems right. Head coach Michael Malone is too good to let them fall apart completely, and the roster has some capable veterans.

They still have Wilson Chandler, right? Is there any proof they don’t just send out different players in the same uniforms each game?

Are the young guys coming along well? Nikola Jokic was a nice surprise last year, and Jusuf Nurkic is healthy again. I hope Emmanuel Mudiay is doing OK, too. Did Tim Connelly’s holiday card say anything about that? How do they expect us to know anything if they just send us the team picture with no note?

No, I haven’t decided where the gift card will be from. It’ll be fine. The supermarket has plenty at the checkout. And we need milk anyway. — Eric Freeman

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