NBA Wordle #13
Saturday, July 18, 2026 · already played
The answer
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MILLS
Patty Mills
G · 2009–2025
Patty Mills's career
Patty Mills played 16 seasons between 2009 and 2025, across 7 franchises — Trail Blazers, Spurs, Nets, Hawks, Heat, Clippers and Jazz. Over 921 regular-season games he averaged 8.7 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists, finishing with 8,004 career points. He was 1× champion.
He entered the league in the 2009 draft, taken 55th overall in the second round, well outside the picks that carry guarantees. That makes him a product of the 2000s, and his career totals should be read against the pace and rules of that period.
Across a long career of 16 seasons he was a rotation piece at 8.7 points per game.
- Games
- 921
- PPG
- 8.7
- RPG
- 1.6
- APG
- 2.2
- Points
- 8,004
- Rebounds
- 1,491
- Assists
- 2,010
- 3PM
- 1,546
Teams
- Trail Blazers · 2010–2011
- Spurs · 2012–2021
- Nets · 2022–2023
- Hawks · 2024
- Heat · 2024
- Clippers · 2025
- Jazz · 2025
Honours
1× NBA champion
About the answer
The answer was MILLS — 5 letters, made up of 4 distinct letters and beginning with M.
The optional hint offered that day read: “Point guard · debuted 2009”.
Why this was a fair answer
Patty Mills 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 8.7 points across 921 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 7 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 1 championship ring were another strong signal — most of the pool has none.
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