The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Memphis Grizzlies, Charlotte Hornets |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Sacramento Kings, Minnesota Timberwolves |
| Rare | 60 | Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks |
| Schooler | 30 | Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns |
| Too Clever | 15 | Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors |
| Plankton | 10 | Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls |
How the crowd plays it
The crowd's reflex here is "Los Angeles Lakers" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Boston Celtics", belongs to the Too Clever tier: it sounds like a deep cut and lands like a cliché, because every confident player reaches for it in the same second.
Swim past the school and the ladder thins out fast: "Sacramento Kings" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Memphis Grizzlies" — one banked answer, 100 points, no company.
Playing this prompt backwards
When this question surfaces in a dive, your 25 seconds are best spent in reverse: first, name the Plankton answer silently and let it go; second, refuse the Too Clever answer unless the clock is dying; third, search your second page — the runner-up, the older one, the one from the smaller place. In sports, that means remembering that think of the highlight reel backwards — not the winning goal, but the tournament it came from, the referee, the host city, the losing finalist. Depth in sports is mostly memory of the undercard.
This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Sports pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.