Mystery Player #13
Saturday, July 18, 2026 · already played
The answer
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Dominique Wilkins
F · 1982–1999
Dominique Wilkins's career
Dominique Wilkins played 17 seasons between 1982 and 1999, across 5 franchises — Hawks, Clippers, Celtics, Spurs and Magic. Over 1,074 regular-season games he averaged 24.8 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists, finishing with 26,668 career points. He was 9× All-Star, 7× All-NBA and member of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
He entered the league in the 1982 draft, taken 3th overall, a lottery pick expected to start immediately. That makes him a product of the 1980s, and his career totals should be read against the pace and rules of that period.
Across a unusually long career of 17 seasons he was a primary scoring option at 24.8 points per game.
- Games
- 1,074
- PPG
- 24.8
- RPG
- 6.7
- APG
- 2.5
- Points
- 26,668
- Rebounds
- 7,169
- Assists
- 2,677
- 3PM
- 711
Teams
- Hawks · 1983–1994
- Clippers · 1994
- Celtics · 1995
- Spurs · 1997
- Magic · 1999
Honours
9× All-Star · 7× All-NBA · NBA 75th Anniversary Team
How the clues read
Every guess that day was scored against Dominique Wilkins across nine categories. These were the values behind the grid.
- Position:
- F
- Debut season:
- 1982
- Status:
- Retired
- Nationality:
- USA
- Teams:
- Hawks, Clippers, Celtics, Spurs, Magic
- Points per game:
- 24.8
- Championships:
- 0
- All-Star selections:
- 9
Why this was a fair answer
Answers are never obscure by design: the pool is every NBA All-Star who debuted in the 1969-70 season or later, plus current players carrying a real scoring role. Dominique Wilkins qualifies on the first route, with 9 All-Star selections — a perennial selection rather than a one-off. He was later named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
With 5 franchises on his record, the shared-team clue was unusually generous here — a wide range of guesses would have lit it up green and pointed the wrong way as often as the right one. The debut arrow was the fastest way in: anyone opening with a modern player would have been sent back decades immediately. He never won a title, which quietly rules out a large share of the most-guessed names.
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