GAME RULES

The wheel draws 2 to 4 NBA franchises. Your job: find a player who played for all of these teams during his career.

Type his name in the search bar — autocomplete helps you find him fast.

Our database is built on official regular season and playoff games. For a player to be linked to a franchise, he must have played at least one official game in that team's jersey.

Simply signing a contract or being announced in a trade is not enough — the player must have actually taken the court in competition. Watch out for recent trades (outside our latest update) or off-season moves: a player may have left one city without yet having played for his new team.

The more franchises drawn, the tougher the challenge — but the bigger the reward.

Each round is timed. Answer correctly within the first 3 seconds (2 franchises) or the first 5 seconds (3 or 4 franchises) of the clock, and you score an AND1 bonus (+1 point) — just like drawing the foul on the way to the basket!

Training — Play at your own pace, pick your number of rounds, zero pressure.

Endless Challenge — Climb through ever-harder tiers with no limit. The game keeps going as long as you answer correctly: go as high as you can. You play freely, no username needed — and at the end, you can pick a username to post your score to the world leaderboard if you want.

Multiplayer — Face your friends locally, turn by turn, up to 10 players on the same device.

In the Endless Challenge, every tier you clear moves you up a grade ladder inspired by an NBA career: Prospect → Rookie → Role Player → Sixth Man → Starter → Franchise Player → All-Star → All-NBA → MVP → Hall of Famer, then the ultimate peak: G.O.A.T. (and beyond, a level that climbs endlessly).

Your grade follows you everywhere: on your player card, in level-up popups, and on the leaderboards. In the Daily Challenge it shows next to your username — all the sweeter when a small grade tops a big one on the day's game! No grade yet? Jump into the Endless Challenge to earn yours.

The flagship mode of Hardwood Links. Every day at midnight UTC, 10 fresh combos — the same for every player worldwide (8 PM ET / 5 PM PT).

How it works:

• 10 rounds: 4 easy (2 franchises), 3 medium (3 franchises), 3 hard (4 franchises)
• One try per round — no second chance
• Play the rounds in any order you like
• Classic scoring: 1 / 3 / 5 points, plus the AND1 bonus

🔥 Streak: play every day to build your consecutive-day streak. It's saved with your username and PIN — pick it back up on any device by logging in.

🏅 Leaderboard: a daily leaderboard reset every midnight, plus yesterday's visible for 24h. Ties are broken by number of correct answers, then by streak. No time advantage — play at your own pace.

One game per day — so aim true!

Some teams relocated throughout NBA history. A player who played for the old franchise is automatically linked to the new city:

• Vancouver Grizzlies → Memphis Grizzlies (2001)
• Seattle SuperSonics → Oklahoma City Thunder (2008)
• New Jersey Nets → Brooklyn Nets (2012)
• New Orleans Hornets → New Orleans Pelicans (2013)

Endless Challenge — you play anonymously, then claim your leaderboard spot by choosing a username. Your best score is kept (one record per username), with a world leaderboard showing your reached level in colour.

Daily Challenge — a daily leaderboard reset every midnight, plus yesterday's. Your username + PIN also save your consecutive-day streak.

The player and stats database is updated at key moments of the NBA season: at the start of the season, after free agency and the trade deadline, and at season's end.

Check the last update date shown on the home screen — a very recent trade or signing might not be reflected yet. Only officially played games count in our database: a signing or trade in progress is not enough.

Hardwood Links is free, ad-free, and built on personal time. If you'd like to help keep the game updated and online, you can support the developer via Ko-fi. Every bit helps!