| 100% | BBALL | 5 | The NBA's game, for short: Hyph. |
| 62% | SLC | 3 | Home of the NBA's Jazz, for short |
| 54% | HOOPS | 5 | The NBA's game, casually |
| 52% | EARL | 4 | Cager Boykins who's the shortest player to score 30 points in an NBA game |
| 52% | MAV | 3 | Player on the NBA team owned by Mark Cuban, for short |
| 52% | OPED | 4 | Newspaper column expressing the writer's views, for short: Hyph. |
| 51% | SERB | 4 | The NBA's Boban Marjanovic, for one |
| 50% | REF | 3 | NBA game official, for short |
| 50% | PINBALL | 7 | Game for the who's tommy |
| 50% | AROD | 4 | J.Lo's fiancé, for short: Hyph. |
| 50% | KFED | 4 | Britney's ex, for short: Hyph. |
| 49% | BBALL | 5 | Game played by the 15-Across, for short (Hyph.) |
| 49% | OLY | 3 | The ___ Games, for short (series of international athletic contests) |
| 49% | CLE | 3 | NBA's Cavaliers, for short |
| 49% | BBALL | 5 | LeBron's game, for short |
| 48% | SEMI | 4 | Game before the final round, for short |
| 48% | SEMI | 4 | Game before the final, for short |
| 48% | SEMI | 4 | Game before the finals, for short |
| 48% | SEMIS | 5 | Games before the finals, for short |
| 48% | SYS | 3 | The S in GPS, for short |
| 47% | SEMI | 4 | Game that's right before the finals, for short |
| 47% | NEXTGEN | 7 | Like the latest tech advances, for short: Hyph. |
| 47% | STEPHENCURRY | 12 | Warriors guard who holds the NBA record for most three-pointers in a single game: 2 wds. |
| 47% | ASSN | 4 | The "A" in NBA, for short |
| 47% | FLU | 3 | "The ___ Game" (Wikipedia article that redirects to the entry for the 1997 NBA Finals) |
| 47% | RIO | 3 | City that hosted the 2016 Olympic Games, for short |
| 46% | DQED | 4 | Kicked out of the game, for short |
| 46% | DQS | 3 | Tosses out of the game, for short |
| 46% | BERG | 4 | The Titanic's downfall, for short |
| 46% | NYC | 3 | The Bronx's city, for short |