NBA

Basketball fans aren’t easy to shop for. Anybody that’s attempted it will know exactly why. They’ve either bought the things they actually want already. Or what they want is licensed merchandise they can find anywhere but that’s cheap and completely forgettable. Or you take a gamble on a jersey and get the wrong team. God forbid you pick the wrong player. At that point you might just as well give up and buy them a toaster. We’ve bought all of the above so you don’t have too. We’ve compiled every gift idea here for the person for whom basketball isn’t just a hobby, it’s their personality. Or at least a huge part of it. The person that watches the late games on a Tuesday and wakes up for work like nothing happened. The person who has NBA draft opinions you never asked for but they’re going to share them anyway. We know that person. In many cases, we ARE that person. Every item we’ve selected had to pass a simple test. Would we, as actual fans, want this or does it just have a team logo on it. Simple enough concept, but trust us it eliminates about ninety percent of available merchandise. We weren’t looking to fill your gift with novelty items that get stuck in a drawer. We wanted stuff that actually gets a reaction. Gifts that fit into the way a real fan lives, watches, argues and obsesses about basketball. Speaking of gifts for every type of fan. We’ve thought about every fanbase when putting this list together. The guy who loves the Lakers and has been through every stage of their rise and fall. The younger fan that knows all the highlights thanks to Instagram and YouTube. The nerd who cares about the analytics just as much as the game itself. Finding gifts that cover all of these fans and more is a challenge. We did it. Some of these ideas cover watching the game, enhancing the experience and feeling like more of an event. Some of these you can wear and won’t feel like you’re wearing a souvenir. Some are even things for the home that you’ll show off to guests and have them ask where you got. If it was easy to find and stock, it didn’t make this list. Each and every one of these we would actually give to somebody we knew and loved who is just as obsessed with this game as we are.

Atlanta Hawks

As a Hawks fan, finding something worth gifting isn't supposed to be this difficult. We’re not suffering through a lack of options. It’s just that a majority of available products are licensed garbage you toss in a drawer next to the broken USB charger you were meaning to replace. We wanted better for you. And we looked for stuff specifically geared towards fans who bleed black and red in spite of their team’s struggles. When State Farm Arena is loud, it’s one of the loudest buildings in basketball. And as serious as those fans are in attendance, they take their…

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Boston Celtics

We don’t need to try to sell you on being a Celtics fan. You already know every championship banner, every retired number hanging from the Garden rafters, every reason why green and white means something different to you than any other colour combination in professional sport. Buying for that person should be easy. Rarely is it. The problem is that there’s just so much stuff. Poor quality replica kit that fades after two washes. Blank white mugs with the logo slapped on like an afterthought. Keyrings that will never even see a key; they’ll end up in a drawer before…

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Brooklyn Nets

Being a Nets fan takes a certain type of person. It’s not been a franchise that has made it easy for itself. The trades. The drama. The constant rebuilding. The identity as a Brooklyn team so intertwined with the borough that it almost becomes a neighborhood pride thing as much as a hoops one. But the people who follow New York’s basketball team do so with passion and a certain type of loyalty that you shouldn’t insult with some random gift tossed into your shopping cart at the eleventh hour. That’s why we put this collection together. For the diehard…

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Charlotte Hornets

The Charlotte Hornets fan is special. Sure, every NBA fanbase has its die-hard supporters but none have stuck through relocated cities, rebrands, and years of tanking like they have. When you have a person like that in your life you should send them something that actually matches their passion, not the first logo’d hoodie you see at your local sporting goods store. We’ve spent time putting this Hornets gift guide together with that person in mind. One thing we quickly learned is that choosing Hornets merchandise is difficult. Not many colours naturally complement that majestic teal and purple hybrid on…

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Chicago Bulls

For every Bulls fan in Chicago, there’s another who has never set foot in the city. That person sat through life developmentally zeroed in on pixels portraying Michael Jordan, and figured that was good enough. You don’t need to have lived nearby to build that level of allegiance. But you do need the right Christmas present. That’s the problem we aimed to solve. Because at a certain point the official store starts to blurr together. Crew shirts in all sizes, keyrings, ‘novelty’ mugs. Most of it shouts Bulls from afar but reveals very little once you hold it. We wanted…

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Cleveland Cavaliers

We know there’s a fan out there who doesn’t want just some random merch with a logo on it. Cav fans have earned that right more than most. This is a fanbase that endured the downtimes, lost their best player and got him back only to watch him do something in 2016 that no Cleveland sportsperson had accomplished in 53 years. You don’t stick by a team through all that nonsense just so you can dunk a logo mug in your motorway service station coffee. So when we sat down to compile this list, we kept that fan in mind.…

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Dallas Mavericks

Picking out a gift for a Mavs fan is easier said than done. There’s a lot of Mavericks merchandise out there. Most of it is mediocre at best. Things people hang on their walls or throw in a drawer or donate guilt-free when they’re cleaning out their closet. We didn’t want to send you there. We wanted to find that needle in the haystack. Gifts that we know a real fan; the kind of person who can name every guy on the roster, watches all the games, and hurts just as much as us when they fall in the playoffs…

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Denver Nuggets

Contrary to what you might think, finding a gift for a Denver Nuggets fan is easy. The mistake most people make is picking something too generic. An ugly christmas sweater with a team logo that could belong to any team in any sport. Nuggets fans deserve better than that. Plus, let’s be real…the person you’re buying for likely already has all of the obvious stuff. They probably want something that celebrates the team they love. The team that lifted Denver’s first NBA Championship banner in 2023. The team centered around the ridiculously talented Nikola Jokic changing the game of basketball…

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Detroit Pistons

Some fans don’t need convincing. They’ve memorized every Finals run, every Bad Boys story, and every roster player back further than you’d think polite. Purchasing a gift for them can either be incredibly easy, or incredibly difficult depending on your level of commitment. You miss, and it becomes homework decor or thrift store socks. You hit, and it becomes the jersey they wear every day, the mug they drink every morning from or the throw they refuse to replace. That’s what we considered when compiling this list. Gifts, not gear. Something that actual Pistons fans will use, see, or wear…

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Golden State Warriors

Finding that perfect gift for the Warriors fan in your life is easy until you actually go try to do it. There’s so many generic jerseys online that fit like towels, mugs emblazoned with outdated rosters, and “fan gear” that was clearly designed by someone who has never stepped foot inside Chase Center. We wanted something better than that for you. No Warriors fan is casual. They remember the Warriors dynasty years. They remember Stephen Curry going off night after night with the Splash Brothers. They remember a team that made everyone who watched them play basketball lean forward in…

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Houston Rockets

Intro We don’t need to win anyone over to being a Rockets fan. You know the type. They went through the Hakeem days. They lived through the Harden experience. They have strong opinions about what this team should be able to do and will happily inform you whether you want to know or not. Finding a gift for that listener isn’t the problem. Finding something that stands up to how seriously they take it is the challenge. We built this collection with them in mind. Not the fickle fan that wears the colours whenever it’s easy, but the diehard that…

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Indiana Pacers

Finding good gifts for a Pacers fan is surprisingly difficult. Not because they’re hard to find. Far from it. It’s just that so much stuff out there is comprised of the same ten things copied from every other sports merch shop with a logo Photoshopped on. A jersey they already have. A mug that will break in thirty days. A keyring no one needs. We wanted more than that for you, so we set out to find gifts that matter to someone who bleed blue and gold. Indiana basketball fans don’t fall into their fandom halfway. Pacers fans don’t just…

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LA Clippers

Picking a gift that a Clipper fan would actually love is tougher than you think. Not because there aren’t awesome options available, but because there’s so much out there that is just what every fan in every city deals with. Boxes of repetitive logo shirts, balls, hats and foam fingers. We didn’t want to subject you to that. Fans of the Clips deserve something better than that. Hell, we deserve something better than that. Who else remembers the gift shopping blackout after Donald Sterling messed everything up in 2014? Clippers fans don’t just stick around because they can. They’ve had…

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Los Angeles Lakers

There’s a sense of pride that comes with being a Lakers fan. Seventeen titles. Three of the biggest stars the game has ever seen. You don’t accidentally like the Lakers. Lakers fandom is something you inherit, or purposefully select, or bit by bit it works its way into your heart and there’s no shaking it loose. Buying for a Lakers fan is easy, right? They have high standards. Wrong. Buying for a Lakers fan is difficult because they’ve already purchased everything that was immediately available to buy. Our mission with this gift guide was simple: dig a little deeper. We…

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Memphis Grizzlies

Once upon a time there was a Grizzlies fan who doesn’t have to justify their existence. They saw Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol maul wins in the mid-South. They stuck around during rebuilds. They know what Grit and Grind means and still means; not just a slogan, but an ethos pressed into the fibers of this franchise at every opportunity. If you know this Grizzlies fan, figuring out what to get them should feel half as intentional. Our lives are full, which is why we built this collection with a lot of love around your likelihood of forgetting about basketball…

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Miami Heat

Meet the type of person who runs hot. Not always temperamentally – although they kind of do that too – but physically. They want the curry sauce that makes your eyes water from across the room. They are always hunting down the chilli oil the restaurant keeps tucked away behind the counter. When a dish doesn’t make them sweat they consider it to be somehow underwhelming. They would rather live on the edge a little bit at the dinner table than not feel anything at all. If that’s you, this is the gift collection for you. Assembled because gifting to…

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Milwaukee Bucks

Buying a Bucks fan a gift isn’t as easy as picking up something branded and calling it a day. Anyone who watched this team rebuild and grow into legitimate championship contenders through the Giannis years deserves better than some truck driver coffee mug you picked up twenty minutes before closing. They’re smart fans who lived through a championship drought and remember exactly where they were when this one happened. Patient loyalty like that deserves to be remembered when you’re buying them a gift. We built this store because we kept coming up against the same issue. Official merchandise hasn’t always…

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Minnesota Timberwolves

There’s a certain type of Wolves fan this collection was made for. Not the fairweather fan who sat down for a few playoff games and now feels entitled to a jersey. We mean the real deal. The lifelong supporter who has been to games at the Target Center through the lean years. The person who knows the roster inside and out. Who knew something was different when Anthony Edwards arrived and realised before anyone else what this team was going to be. That fan deserves better than something logo’d and mass produced as a “gift”. So we put this together.…

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New Orleans Pelicans

It’s a particular kind of fandom to be a Pelicans fan. It’s not the easiest franchise to throw your professional basketball allegiance behind. You experience the injuries, the baffling front office decisions that don’t make sense until suddenly two years later they do, the seasons that feel like they’re building toward something right up until they pull the rug out from under you. And yet, here we are. We watch. We care. We root. We want to show that same love and loyalty to the other person in our lives who does exactly the same thing that we do. Those…

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New York Knicks

Knicks fans don’t need gifts for when their team wins championships. They have that covered. We’re talking about the other kind of Knicks fan loyalty. The kind that comes from keeping the faith when it isn’t returned, sticking around through thick and thin, and wearing your fandom on your sleeve despite endless disappointment. The kind of person who doesn’t wait by the mailbox every April, but who shows up no matter what. That’s who this is for. Put simply, great gifts for Knicks fans are difficult to come by. There’s a reason why – bad Knicks jerseys and throw pillows…

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