Immaculate Grid @ Basketball Reference

[Andrew]

For anyone who's unaware, Immaculate Grid is Basketball Reference's fun grid-based trivia game where you need to fill each square in the grid with a player that matches the criteria set forth by the row and column.

It can be played daily here: https://www.immaculategrid.com/basketball/mens/

Not long back they added the ability to play earlier grids that you may have missed, going all the way back to #1. The primary goal is obviously to go 9/9 with your picks, and ideally not cheat by looking anything up. However, there's also a rarity score for your picks, so there's an incentive to rack your brain for the most obscure examples possible...or alternatively, see if you can get all of the most common picks.

Personally, thinking back to the rosters of video games has helped me get some rare examples and great rarity scores on grids; NBA Live 96 PC has been particularly helpful! Benchwarmers from the 90s and even 2000s are usually good for a low rarity score, though I've been surprised that some obscure examples were remembered by so many people (or they were looked up; it's all on the honour system, after all).

Another tip for great rarity scores is that examples count from a club's entire history, even if they've relocated or renamed. So, for example, if you're tasked to name a player who played for both the Thunder and Warriors, players who played for the SuperSonics and Warriors will be accepted as answers (and will probably be rarer). Also remember that the current Charlotte Hornets' history is comprised of their post-2014 rebrand, the original Hornets' history, and their records as the Bobcats, while the Pelicans retroactively became the league's 30th team and their history includes the New Orleans Hornets' records. As such, a player like Chris Paul is a potential example for the Pelicans, even though he never played for the club under that name, and is no longer part of the Hornets' lineage for the purposes of Immaculate Grid (as far as I'm aware).

Anyway, it's a fun game to play daily. Any great rarity scores, or conversely successful attempts to get the most common answers, feel free to post them here! No need to use the spoiler code, though that could be a fun idea as well to preserve the challenge if you wish.