NBA HoopGrids answers for today (August 7): Ish Smith teammates who played for the Raptors and Lakers

There's an all-new NBA HoopGrids for Monday, Aug. 7. The trivia game remains popular among online hoop junkies in the middle of the offseason.

Today's grid has two new categories: players who were teammates with Ish Smith and players have scored 25 or more points in an NBA Finals game.

Let's take a look at the clues for Monday's NBA HoopGrids:

• Grid 1: Player who played for the Toronto Raptors and Phoenix Suns.
• Grid 2: Player who played for the LA Lakers and Phoenix Suns.
• Grid 3: Player who played for the Phoenix Suns and scored 25 or more points in an NBA Finals game.
• Grid 4: Player who played for the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors.
• Grid 5: Player who played for the LA Lakers and Golden State Warriors.
• Grid 6: Player who played for the Golden State Warriors and scored 25 or more points in an NBA Finals game.
• Grid 7: Player who played for the Toronto Raptors and was teammates with Ish Smith.
• Grid 8: Player who played for the LA Lakers and was teammates with Ish Smith.
• Grid 9: Player who was teammates with Ish Smith and scored 25 or more points in an NBA Finals game.

For Monday's NBA HoopGrids, let's try to answer grids 7 and 8: which NBA players were teammates with Ish Smith and have played for either the Toronto Raptors or the LA Lakers?

Smith holds the record for the most teams played in NBA history, with 13. He has not played for either the Raptors or Lakers, but he certainly has a lot of former teammates who have.

The 35-year-old guard has been with teams like Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, Golden State Warriors, Orlando Magic, Milwaukee Bucks, Phoenix Suns, OKC Thunder, Philadelphia 76ers, New Orleans Hornets, Detroit Pistons, Washington Wizards, Charlotte Hornets and Denver Nuggets.

For grid 7, Serge Ibaka comes to mind, as he was teammates with Smith in Oklahoma City and won his lone NBA championship in Toronto. As for grid 8, the easy answer is Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who played with Smith in Denver last season. KCP also won a title with the Lakers in 2020.

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NBA HoopGrids answers for Aug. 7

There are other options for grids 7 and 8, too. Notable Raptors players who were teammates with Ish Smith include Marc Gasol, P.J. Tucker, Rudy Gay, Goran Dragic, Isaac Bonga and Kyle Lowry.

Players like Dwight Howard, Kwame Bron, Rui Hachimura, Kyle Kuzma, Troy Brown Jr., Markieff Morris, Andre Drummond, Anthony Davis and DeAndre Jordan have all played with Smith in the NBA. All the aforementioned players also had a stint with the Lakers.

Here's a completed NBA HoopGrids for Monday:

NBA HoopGrids - August 7