NBA Wordle #7
Sunday, July 12, 2026 · already played
The answer
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BROGDON
Malcolm Brogdon
G · 2016–2025
Malcolm Brogdon's career
Malcolm Brogdon played 9 seasons between 2016 and 2025, across 5 franchises — Bucks, Pacers, Celtics, Trail Blazers and Wizards. Over 463 regular-season games he averaged 15.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.7 assists, finishing with 7,077 career points. He was Rookie of the Year.
He entered the league in the 2016 draft, taken 36th overall in the second round, well outside the picks that carry guarantees. That makes him a product of the 2010s, and his career totals should be read against the pace and rules of that period.
Across a solid career of 9 seasons he was a consistent starter at 15.3 points per game.
- Games
- 463
- PPG
- 15.3
- RPG
- 4.1
- APG
- 4.7
- Points
- 7,077
- Rebounds
- 1,917
- Assists
- 2,156
- 3PM
- 752
Teams
- Bucks · 2017–2019
- Pacers · 2020–2022
- Celtics · 2023
- Trail Blazers · 2024
- Wizards · 2025
Honours
Rookie of the Year
About the answer
The answer was BROGDON — 7 letters, made up of 6 distinct letters and beginning with B.
The optional hint offered that day read: “Point guard · debuted 2016”.
Why this was a fair answer
Malcolm Brogdon 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 15.3 points across 463 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 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. A recent debut meant the arrow pointed forward for nearly every guess, which narrows the field quickly once you trust it. He never won a title, which quietly rules out a large share of the most-guessed names.
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