NBA Legends Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Averaging a triple-double for a full season in 2017, the first since Oscar Robertson, brought this explosive guard the MVP. He later broke Robertson's career triple-double record too. He averaged a triple-double in four different seasons, the only player to do it more than once. Which player is this?

Question 2

A 50.4-point scoring average for a full 1962 season and 100 points in a single game are records that have never been seriously approached. The same player led the league in rebounding 11 times and, to prove a point one year, led it in assists. Which player is this?

Question 3

A graduate of the Naval Academy, the 1995 MVP scored 71 points in a game once and won two Spurs titles alongside a younger big man he mentored. A 10-time All-Star, he averaged over 20 points and 10 rebounds for a decade before deferring to a younger star. Which player is this?

Question 4

Perhaps the best low-post footwork the game has seen, full of up-and-under moves, came off the bench for two Sixth Man awards before this Celtic became a starter. He also clotheslined Kurt Rambis in the 1984 Finals. Which player is this?

Question 5

Four scoring titles, then a move to a 73-win team and back-to-back Finals MVPs in 2017 and 2018. An Achilles tear in the 2019 Finals preceded a trade to Brooklyn. A 2014 MVP and 15-time All-Star, he also won multiple Olympic gold medals with the United States. Which player is this?

Question 6

The 2006 Finals MVP led a comeback from 0-2 out of Marquette, then won two more titles alongside LeBron James. Miami retired his number. A 13-time All-Star and the 2009 scoring champion, he had brief late stops in Chicago and Cleveland. Which player is this?

Question 7

An 18-year pick-and-roll partnership with John Stockton in Utah produced two MVPs and a career total that stood second on the all-time scoring list. Three Finals trips all ended in defeat. A 14-time All-Star, he spent his final season with the Lakers, reaching a fourth losing Finals in 2004. Which player is this?

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About NBA Legends

Every era of pro basketball has its faces. In the 1950s and 1960s it was Bill Russell and his 11 rings, Wilt Chamberlain and his 100-point game, Bob Cousy's passing and Oscar Robertson's season-long triple-double. The 1970s brought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's skyhook, Julius Erving's dunks, and one-title wonders like Bill Walton and Wes Unseld.

The 1980s belonged to the Magic Johnson and Larry Bird rivalry, with Isiah Thomas's Pistons and Moses Malone's 76ers in between. Then Michael Jordan won six titles and six Finals MVPs, with Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman beside him, while Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Karl Malone and John Stockton starred without matching his rings.

The 2000s gave us Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan's quiet San Antonio dynasty, Allen Iverson's defiance, Steve Nash's seven-seconds-or-less Suns and Dirk Nowitzki's one-legged fadeaway. The modern game is LeBron James passing Abdul-Jabbar for the scoring record, Stephen Curry rewriting the math from behind the arc, Kevin Durant's scoring, and MVPs for Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid.

This quiz spans all of it: guards, wings and big men from the 1950s to the present. Each question gives two clues, a signature stat, a nickname's origin, a title, an injury, a moment, and four names to choose from. Read the clues, pick the player, and get the full story after each answer.