The grid game continues to take over basketball as the latest puzzle from NBA Crossover Grid has been released. Made popular by baseball's Immaculate Grid game, it has become a serious pastime for many hoops fans during the long offseason.
As usual, a player has nine guesses to complete the puzzle. The clues for Day 14's horizontal grid are players who played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls and those who shot 55.0% or better from the field in a single season.
There's also a new catch — the player must have attempted 300 field goals or more during that season. As for the vertical grid, the clues are the LA Lakers, Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets.
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Let's take a look at Grids No. 3 and No. 9 — players for the LA Lakers and Denver Nuggets who shot the ball at 55.0% or higher with a minimum of 300 field goal attempts.
For the Lakers, there are several obvious answers like Shaquille O'Neal, Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. James Worthy and Magic Johnson were also efficient shooters despite not being dominant centers.
Meanwhile, the Nuggets' grid might be tougher to crack. Nikola Jokic comes to mind for those who have followed the NBA recently. Hardcore Denver fans will know that players like Dikembe Mutombo, Nene Hilario and Kenneth Faried accomplished the feat.
It should be noted that any former Laker or Nugget can be answered as long as the player accomplished the aforementioned feat. Karl Malone didn't shoot better than 50.0% in his lone season in Hollywood but achieved it during his time with the Utah Jazz.
Where to play more NBA Crossover Grid games?
One of the few downsides of playing NBA Crossover Grid is that you only have one chance to correctly guess all the answers. There's also just one kind of puzzle per day.
However, players should not be sad, as there's an alternative to Crossover Grid. It's called HoopGrids and is basically the same game. Here's their puzzle for today:
Crossover Grid ranks all the players, while HoopGrids have their own rating system. The lower the rating, the better the score.
For those who failed either puzzle for the day, you can just open your incognito mode and retake it. If you fail again, just close the window, and re-open incognito mode.
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