Links: Wizards come crawling Back to Mack

Welcome home for Christmas links:

• It's Christmas time, which means good teams are playing, and the Wizards aren't. They're staying busy though, bringing back Shelvin Mack to save the day. [Us | SB Nation DC | Washington Post (paper, blog) | Washington Examiner | CSN Washington | Wiz of Awes | Celtics Blog | The Point Forward | Yahoo! Sports]
• The Wizards could use a break. So could their beaten-down fans. [Washington Times]
• Hopefully Santa will bring the Wizards a healthy knee for John Wall. What Christmas gifts should other D.C. teams be wishing for? [Washington Examiner]
• Andre Drummond kind of dominated the Wizards two nights in row. [Detroit Bad Boys]
• A lot of you want the Wizards to trade for DeMarcus Cousins. Tom Ziller is pretty sure Cousins will need a change of scenery if he's ever going to grow up, but the Wiz don't reform talented knuckleheads. They ship them away. [SB Nation]
• Roundup of Sunday's NBA games. [SB Nation]
• Could LeBron James return to Cleveland in 2014 and team up with Kyrie Irving? #nightmares [SB Nation | Akron Beacon Journal]