NBA Connections answers for October 12, 2026 (#4)

Spoilers below. The four groups of NBA Connections #4 (October 12, 2026), easiest first: Played for the Chicago Bulls; Played for the New York Knicks; NBA debut in the 1990s; Went to college at Florida.

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The four groups

  1. Played for the Chicago Bulls Yellow (easiest)

    • Dwyane Wade · Bulls: 2016–17
    • Scottie Pippen · Bulls: 1987–88 to 2003–04
    • Robert Parish · Bulls: 1996–97
    • Horace Grant · Bulls: 1987–88 to 1993–94

  2. Played for the New York Knicks Green

    • Dave DeBusschere · Knicks: 1968–69 to 1973–74
    • Karl-Anthony Towns · Knicks: 2024–25 to 2025–26
    • Rolando Blackman · Knicks: 1992–93 to 1993–94
    • Patrick Ewing · Knicks: 1985–86 to 1999–00

  3. NBA debut in the 1990s Blue

    • Ray Allen · first NBA season 1996–97
    • Chris Webber · first NBA season 1993–94
    • Cedric Ceballos · first NBA season 1990–91
    • Christian Laettner · first NBA season 1992–93

  4. Went to college at Florida Purple (trickiest)

    • Bradley Beal · Florida
    • Al Horford · Florida
    • Vernon Maxwell · Florida
    • Udonis Haslem · Florida

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.

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