| 100% | LISALESLIE | 10 | She threw down the first dunk in W.N.B.A. history |
| 47% | LISALESLIE | 10 | L.A. Sparks player who was the first to dunk in a W.N.B.A. game |
| 39% | LISA | 4 | ___ Leslie, the first player to dunk in a WNBA game |
| 39% | KAREEM | 6 | First name in the N.B.A. |
| 39% | LISA | 4 | ___ Leslie, the first player ever to dunk in a WNBA game |
| 39% | KAREEM | 6 | First name in the N.B.A., once |
| 37% | MVP | 3 | A’ja Wilson, in the 2020 W.N.B.A. season |
| 37% | ATH | 3 | The first "A" in N.C.A.A.: Abbr. |
| 37% | NETS | 4 | N.B.A. team that recently agreed to its first trade with the Knicks in over 40 years |
| 36% | ASSN | 4 | The first "A" in N.A.A.C.P.: Abbr. |
| 36% | SWOOPES | 7 | Sheryl who was the first W.N.B.A. player to have a signature shoe |
| 36% | CURRY | 5 | Steph ___, first unanimous M.V.P. in N.B.A. history |
| 36% | DRJ | 3 | N.B.A. star who started in the A.B.A. |
| 36% | LISALESLIE | 10 | Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who was the first player to dunk in a WNBA game: 2 wds. |
| 36% | TAMPA | 5 | Home to the first N.F.L. team to win a Super Bowl in its own stadium (2021) |
| 36% | LOLA | 4 | The "her" in the lyric "I met her in a club down in old Soho" |
| 36% | ROME | 4 | First city to reach a population of one million people, in the second century B.C. |
| 35% | MVP | 3 | Award won four times in the W.N.B.A. by A'ja Wilson |
| 34% | ACADEMY | 7 | The first A in BAFTA |
| 34% | LLOYD | 5 | Earl ___, first African-American to play in the N.B.A. |
| 34% | BRITISH | 7 | The first B in the BBC |
| 34% | ACE | 3 | The first card in a deck |
| 34% | UMA | 3 | Actress Thurman who played a history professor in "The Life Before Her Eyes" |
| 34% | UMA | 3 | ___ Thurman who stars as a history professor in "The Life Before Her Eyes" |
| 34% | BED | 3 | The first "B" in "B and B" |
| 34% | ALSO | 4 | The first "a" in a k a |
| 34% | ALAN | 4 | The first "A" in A.A. Milne |
| 34% | ALSO | 4 | The first "A" in A.K.A. |
| 34% | ANTE | 4 | Throw the first chips in |
| 33% | DIANA | 5 | Taurasi who leads the W.N.B.A. in career scoring |