NBA Wordle #1
Monday, July 6, 2026 · already played
The answer
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MAGGETTE
Corey Maggette
F · 1999–2013
Corey Maggette's career
Corey Maggette played 14 seasons between 1999 and 2013, across 6 franchises — Magic, Clippers, Warriors, Bucks, Hornets and Pistons. Over 827 regular-season games he averaged 16 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists, finishing with 13,198 career points.
He entered the league in the 1999 draft, taken 13th overall in the lottery. That makes him a product of the 1990s, and his career totals should be read against the pace and rules of that period.
Across a long career of 14 seasons he was a consistent starter at 16 points per game.
- Games
- 827
- PPG
- 16
- RPG
- 4.9
- APG
- 2.1
- Points
- 13,198
- Rebounds
- 4,022
- Assists
- 1,696
- 3PM
- 463
Teams
- Magic · 2000
- Clippers · 2001–2008
- Warriors · 2009–2010
- Bucks · 2011
- Hornets · 2012
- Pistons · 2013
About the answer
The answer was MAGGETTE — 8 letters, made up of 5 distinct letters and beginning with M.
The optional hint offered that day read: “Small forward · debuted 1999”.
Why this was a fair answer
Corey Maggette was never an All-Star, so he reaches the answer pool by the second route: current players with a genuine offensive role, at least 12 points per game and 150 career games. At 16 points across 827 games he clears that bar comfortably, which is why a player without the honours of the pool's headline names can still turn up as an answer.
With 6 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. He never won a title, which quietly rules out a large share of the most-guessed names.
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