NBA Grid: today’s basketball grid
Three NBA teams across the top, three down the side. Fill each square with a player who played for both teams, using nine guesses or fewer. Every square has at least a dozen valid answers, and nine different players can always fill the board.
NBA Grid #1
Tap a square, then pick a player who played for both teams.
How to play the NBA Grid
- Each square sits where a row team meets a column team.
- Tap a square and search for a player who played for both of its teams, at any point of his career.
- You have 9 guesses for the nine squares, and each player can be used once. A wrong pick costs a guess.
- Each right answer shows its rarity: lower means fewer seasons among that square's answers. Your rarity score adds the nine squares (an empty one counts 100).
- A new grid comes out every day at midnight UTC. Today's hardest square still has 31 valid answers.
Stuck? See who played for both (spoilers)
Each of today's squares has its own list of every player who played for both teams, with his seasons and games. Opening one is a spoiler, so try first.
- Raptors and Bucks41 players played for both
- Raptors and Celtics45 players played for both
- Raptors and Jazz31 players played for both
- Grizzlies and Bucks36 players played for both
- Grizzlies and Celtics33 players played for both
- Grizzlies and Jazz38 players played for both
- Cavaliers and Bucks73 players played for both
- Cavaliers and Celtics60 players played for both
- Cavaliers and Jazz51 players played for both
Where the careers come from
The careers behind every square come from the infoboxes of English Wikipedia's player articles (CC BY-SA 4.0), 4,775 players with BAA/NBA seasons from 1946-47 to 2025-26. A player counts for a team when his infobox lists that season for that franchise. Old names and cities count for today's franchise, so Seattle SuperSonics seasons are Thunder seasons and New Jersey Nets seasons are Brooklyn Nets seasons. ABA seasons do not count. Player ids come from Wikidata (CC0).
NBA Grid: questions
How does the NBA Grid work?
Each square sits where a row team meets a column team. Tap it and pick a player who played for both teams at any point of his career. Right answers stay on the board; you have nine guesses in total, and each player can be used once.
What counts as “played for” a team?
A player counts for a team when his Wikipedia infobox lists that NBA (or BAA) season for that franchise. Old names and cities count for today’s franchise: Seattle SuperSonics seasons are Thunder seasons, Minneapolis Lakers seasons are Lakers seasons. ABA seasons do not count.
How is the rarity score worked out?
Each right answer gets a rarity from 1 to 100: his share of all the NBA seasons played by every valid answer for that square. A long career scores high; a one-season player scores low. Your rarity score adds the nine squares (an empty square counts 100), so lower is rarer. It is estimated from careers, not from other players’ picks.
When does a new grid come out?
Every day at midnight UTC. The board is the same for everyone, and past boards stay playable from the archive.
Is every square solvable?
Yes. A board is used only when each of its nine squares has at least three valid answers and nine different players can fill all nine squares at once. The answers page for each day lists them.
Is this the official NBA game?
No. AllStar Grid is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the NBA, its teams, the players’ union or any other grid game. Team names and logos are used only to say which franchises a question asks about; the logos are trademarks of their teams.
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Careers from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); player ids from Wikidata (CC0). Team logos are trademarks of their respective teams; AllStar Grid is not affiliated with the NBA or any team. Logos via TheSportsDB. Credits