| LUKA | Slovenian professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks, _ Doncic (4) |
| WARD | Charlie ___ former basketball player for the New York Knicks who was also an exceptional football player |
| JAMES | American basketball player for the Los Angel es Lakers. LeBron _ (5) |
| LEBRONJAMES | American basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers who earned $85.5M in 2018: 2 wds. |
| SHAQ | ___ O'Neal, American former professional basketball player (informally) |
| LOMU | Late New Zealand rugby player who became the youngest Test player for the All Blacks when he debuted with the team in 1994 aged 19 (4) |
| SETH | Point guard Curry who has rejoined the Dallas Mavericks |
| DIRK | Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks |
| ROMO | Tony who played for the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2016 |
| NICK | Arrest New York basketball player for speaking |
| JETS | Joe Namath was a star player for the New York ___. (4) |
| NETS | The Brooklyn ____: professional basketball team from New York City. (4) |
| SUNS | The Phoenix ---, professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona (4) |
| MAVS | Team that traded Luka Doncic, for short |
| RENS | All-Black team that won the first professional basketball championship, in 1939 |
| MARKCUBAN | NBA team owner who said on ESPN on Thursday: "Taylor [Swift] if you're listening: break up with him [Travis Kelce], I got a bunch of good-looking single guys that play for the Dallas Mavericks. I got |
| NENE | Brazilian player for the Houston Rockets |
| PELE | Star player for the Cosmos |
| MARK | Dallas Mavericks owner Cuban, who was fined $250,000 by the NBA |
| HEAT | 2006, 2012 and 2013 NBA Finals winners against Dallas Mavericks, Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs respectively (4) |
