NBA Connections answers for October 9, 2026 (#1)
Spoilers below. The four groups of NBA Connections #1 (October 9, 2026), easiest first: Played for the Dallas Mavericks; Played for the Toronto Raptors; Listed as a guard; Played for 5 or more NBA franchises.
The four groups
- Alex English · Mavericks: 1990–91
- Lamar Odom · Mavericks: 2011–12
- Amar'e Stoudemire · Mavericks: 2014–15
- Anthony Davis · Mavericks: 2024–25 to 2025–26
- Marc Gasol · Raptors: 2018–19 to 2019–20
- Pascal Siakam · Raptors: 2016–17 to 2023–24
- Hakeem Olajuwon · Raptors: 2001–02
- Chris Bosh · Raptors: 2003–04 to 2009–10
Listed as a guard Blue
- Gilbert Arenas · listed as PG/SG
- Manu Ginóbili · listed as SG/SF
- Clyde Drexler · listed as SG/SF
- John Havlicek · listed as SF/SG
Played for 5 or more NBA franchises Purple (trickiest)
- Ben Wallace · 5 franchises
- Georges Niang · 5 franchises
- Pau Gasol · 5 franchises
- Moses Malone · 7 franchises
How the groups are checked
Each group is a fact from the players' English Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA 4.0): the franchises he played at least one NBA season for, his listed positions, his college, his draft line, his All-Star selections and the Hall of Fame. Before the puzzle was published, all 64 player-and-group pairs were checked: every player fits his own group and, by the data, none of the other three.