Awards01
NBA All-Star selections
An NBA All-Star selection no later than 2025–26 qualifies. Players selected as injury replacements are included.
466 Answers↗
Answer book
Browse the complete answer lists from five publicly available past games. Search a name, topic, or category.
Historical snapshot: October 27–31, 2026. Scores belong to those specific prompts and dates; this is not today’s answer key.2026-10-27 → 2026-10-31
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Stats02
A season averaging at least 10 points
Use a player with a season of at least 10 points per game and at least 40 games played. The archive covers seasons ending from 1947 through 2026.
1649 Answers↗
Places03
Colleges represented in the NBA
Enter a college attended by someone with an NBA or BAA appearance. The key uses Basketball-Reference’s short school names, such as UNC, UConn and LSU; the answer is the college.
574 Answers↗
Basketball history04
Players sharing a president’s surname
The player’s surname must match a U.S. president’s surname. The pool draws on the NBA all-time player list; Johnson, Jackson, Carter, Pierce and Grant are examples of the surname pattern.
235 Answers↗
Stats05
20 points per game in a 2000s season
At least 20 points per game in a season ending from 2000 through 2009, with a minimum of 40 appearances in that season.
74 Answers↗
Stats06
Players listed at seven feet or taller
Use a player whose listed height on Basketball-Reference is at least 7 feet. Listed height is the criterion, rather than an independently measured height.
306 Answers↗
Teams & teammates07
Seattle SuperSonics players
The pool includes players from every season played under the Seattle SuperSonics identity. Use that historical team identity, rather than assuming every later franchise player qualifies.
257 Answers↗
Places08
NBA and BAA home arenas
Enter a name used by an NBA or BAA home arena. Sponsor-era names can both qualify: Staples Center and Crypto.com Arena are examples. The answer is the arena name.
163 Answers↗
Basketball history09
Players active in the 1990s
A regular-season or playoff appearance in a season ending from 1990 through 1999 qualifies. The decade is based on the season’s ending year.
1016 Answers↗
Stats10
At least 10,000 career points
Use a player with at least 10,000 NBA/BAA regular-season career points in the archive’s data through 2025–26. Playoff points are not part of this threshold.
414 Answers↗
Stats11
15 points per game in a 2010s season
At least 15 points per game in a season ending from 2010 through 2019, with at least 40 games played in that season.
188 Answers↗
Basketball history12
NBA players who attended Kentucky
Kentucky must appear among the colleges on the player’s Basketball-Reference page; transfers are eligible. The source says the current season’s rookies are included in this particular list.
144 Answers↗
Awards13
All-NBA team selections
A first-, second- or third-team All-NBA selection through 2025–26 qualifies. The archive also includes the corresponding All-BAA selections.
263 Answers↗
Stats14
At least 1,000 career games
The player needs at least 1,000 regular-season career games in the archive’s data through 2025–26. This criterion does not add playoff games.
156 Answers↗
Awards15
First overall draft picks
The original uses a manually curated list of number-one overall draft selections through the 2026 draft. The archived accepted list defines the scope of this practice prompt.
61 Answers↗
Basketball history16
NBA player nicknames
Type the nickname itself, not the player’s name. The key uses Wikipedia’s basketball nickname list plus selected additions including The Brow, Wemby and Linsanity.
508 Answers↗
Stats17
At least 5,000 career points
Use at least 5,000 NBA/BAA regular-season career points as recorded through 2025–26. The question concerns career totals, not a single season or playoff totals.
992 Answers↗
Teams & teammates18
Lakers players
The Lakers membership list runs through 2025–26. Players who joined during the current season are omitted from this archived key.
516 Answers↗
Stats19
7 rebounds per game in a 2000s season
At least 7 rebounds per game in a season ending from 2000 through 2009, with a minimum of 40 games in that season.
142 Answers↗
Basketball history20
Players born outside the United States
The source uses Wikipedia’s overseas-born NBA player list through the start of 2024–25. For this prompt, U.S. territories including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands count as outside the 50 states.
622 Answers↗
Basketball history21
Players traded on draft night
The player’s draft rights must have been traded on draft night, or in a deal agreed that night, between 1980 and 2026 according to Wikipedia draft pages. The player must also have appeared in the NBA.
448 Answers↗
Basketball history22
Players known for a bald or shaved head
This is the original’s hand-selected list of players known for a bald or shaved head during their NBA careers. It is an appearance-based curated category, not a statistical threshold.
132 Answers↗
Basketball history23
Players with a 50-point game
Use an NBA player with at least one game of 50 or more points. The archived list is based on Basketball-Reference’s 50-point game records through 2025–26.
177 Answers↗
Basketball history24
Players without college basketball
The key includes careers beginning in 1960 or later with no college recorded by Basketball-Reference: high-school entrants, overseas routes, G League and Overtime Elite are among the routes.
380 Answers↗
Teams & teammates25
LeBron James’s teammates
The teammate list uses data through 2025–26. Players who first joined LeBron’s team in the current season are missing from this archived key.
253 Answers↗
Basketball history26
Players with four or more franchises
The player must have regular-season appearances for at least four distinct NBA franchises. A franchise that relocates is counted once, not as separate teams for each city.
1410 Answers↗
Basketball history27
At least two career triple-doubles
The archive uses Basketball-Reference’s career list of NBA/ABA players with at least two regular-season triple-doubles. NBA/ABA is the stated scope for this particular prompt.
283 Answers↗
Basketball history28
Rookie of the Year winners
The key includes NBA Rookie of the Year winners from 1953 onward, together with BAA and early-NBA winners included by Basketball-Reference.
83 Answers↗
Stats29
20 points per game in a 1990s season
At least 20 points per game in a season ending from 1990 through 1999, with at least 40 appearances in that season.
76 Answers↗
Stats30
10 rebounds per game in a 1990s season
At least 10 rebounds per game in a season ending from 1990 through 1999, with at least 40 games played in that season.
45 Answers↗
Basketball history31
Players active in the 2000s
A regular-season or playoff appearance in a season ending from 2000 through 2009 qualifies. Use the ending year to determine the decade.
1091 Answers↗
Places32
Cities that hosted NBA or BAA teams
Enter a home city used by an NBA or BAA team since 1946. The city itself counts; for example, Brooklyn and Newark both appear for the Nets’ history.
57 Answers↗
Awards33
Hall of Famers with NBA experience
The player must have an NBA or BAA appearance and membership in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. The source accepts any induction category for a qualifying former player.
175 Answers↗
Basketball history34
Players active in the 1980s
A regular-season or playoff appearance in a season ending from 1980 through 1989 qualifies. These are season-ending years, not the year a season began.
880 Answers↗
Basketball history35
Players with matching first and last initials
The first and last names must begin with the same letter. The archived pool draws from the NBA all-time player list.
305 Answers↗
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