NBA Connections answers for October 13, 2026 (#5)
Spoilers below. The four groups of NBA Connections #5 (October 13, 2026), easiest first: Played for the Washington Wizards; Played for the Atlanta Hawks; Went to college at Indiana; First name Kevin.
The four groups
- Mike Miller · Wizards: 2009–10
- Elvin Hayes · Wizards: 1972–73 to 1980–81
- Dave Bing · Wizards: 1975–76 to 1976–77
- Don Nelson · Wizards: 1962–63
- Antoine Walker · Hawks: 2004–05
- Clyde Lovellette · Hawks: 1958–59 to 1961–62
- Joe Johnson · Hawks: 2005–06 to 2011–12
- Elton Brand · Hawks: 2013–14 to 2014–15
Went to college at Indiana Blue
- George McGinnis · Indiana
- Isiah Thomas · Indiana
- Victor Oladipo · Indiana
- Kent Benson · Indiana
First name Kevin Purple (trickiest)
- Kevin Johnson · Kevin Johnson
- Kevin Durant · Kevin Durant
- Kevin McHale · Kevin McHale
- Kevin Love · Kevin Love
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.