NBA Connections answers for October 14, 2026 (#6)
Spoilers below. The four groups of NBA Connections #6 (October 14, 2026), easiest first: Played for the Oklahoma City Thunder; Listed as a center; 10 or more NBA All-Star selections; No. 1 overall draft pick.
The four groups
- Šarūnas Marčiulionis · Thunder: 1994–95
- Paul George · Thunder: 2017–18 to 2018–19
- Spencer Haywood · Thunder: 1970–71 to 1974–75
- Sebastian Telfair · Thunder: 2014–15
Listed as a center Green
- Dikembe Mutombo · listed as C
- Bam Adebayo · listed as C/PF
- John Salley · listed as PF/C
- Rudy Gobert · listed as C
10 or more NBA All-Star selections Blue
- Dirk Nowitzki · 14× NBA All-Star
- Hal Greer · 10× NBA All-Star
- Larry Bird · 12× NBA All-Star
- Charles Barkley · 11× NBA All-Star
No. 1 overall draft pick Purple (trickiest)
- Kenyon Martin · No. 1 pick, 2000
- Blake Griffin · No. 1 pick, 2009
- Cazzie Russell · No. 1 pick, 1966
- Kyrie Irving · No. 1 pick, 2011
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.