Merry Christmas. Let’s basketball.

Good morning. Merry Christmas. Let’s basketball.

WHY NOT? Paul Flannery has a special Sunday Shootaround focused on Russell Westbrook and his philosophy. It’s interesting that Westbrook loves nothing more than to talk about his teammates, despite he himself being at the center of everything the Thunder do. Flanns also has NBA Christmas conversation starters, the quotes of the week and a tremendous GIF courtesy of art enthusiast Seth Rosenthal. Check it out.

MAKING A LIST: I ranked the five Christmas Day games in terms of watchability and shared strategies for balancing family and friends and basketball on this most glorious of basketball holidays.

LET THE UNICORN FROLIC: Mike Prada’s latest video breakdown focuses in on Kristaps Porzingis, who is already the Knicks’ best player and opens up sooo much.

HERE’S TODAY’S SCHEDULE ...

Celtics at Knicks, 12 p.m. ET, ESPN
Warriors at Cavaliers, 2:30 p.m. ET, ABC
Bulls at Spurs, 5 p.m. ET, ABC
Timberwolves at Thunder, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN
Clippers at Lakers, 10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN

Full coverage of Sunday’s action on SBNation.com/NBA all day and all night, and we’ll be back at it Monday, too. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and best wishes to all. Be excellent to each other.