{"id":689753,"date":"2026-06-07T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689753\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:25:09","slug":"sunday-puzzle-nba-team-names-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689753\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle: NBA Team Names : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sundaypuzzle-widecrop_custom-fc423904705b59dbf8067e7f24062444f00e986b.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2020\/10\/10\/sundaypuzzle-widecrop_custom-fc423904705b59dbf8067e7f24062444f00e986b.jpg?s={width}&amp;c={quality}&amp;f={format}\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Sunday Puzzle\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Sunday Puzzle<\/p>\n<p>                    NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        NPR<\/p>\n<p>            <img data-original=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2020\/10\/10\/sundaypuzzle-widecrop_custom-fc423904705b59dbf8067e7f24062444f00e986b.jpg?s=2600&amp;c=100&amp;f=jpeg\" alt=\"Sunday Puzzle\"\/><\/p>\n<p>   On-air challenge   <\/p>\n<p>As you probably know, the N.B.A. finals are going on right now. Game 3 between the Knicks and the Spurs is tomorrow night. So today I&#8217;ve brought a puzzle based on N.B.A. team names.<\/p>\n<p>1. The name of what N.B.A. team is an anagram of PARROTS?<br \/>2. The name of what N.B.A. team is an anagram of THRONES<br \/>3. The name of what N.B.A. team is an anagram of SCRAPE?<br \/>4. Name two N.B.A. franchises that are birds.<br \/>5. You can remove the consecutive letters UGG of one N.B.A. team to get another. What teams are these?<br \/>6. The name of what N.B.A. team sounds like what they try to do for home games?<\/p>\n<p>   Last week&#8217;s challenge   <\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s challenge comes from Mike Reiss, a longtime writer and showrunner for &#8220;The Simpsons.&#8221; Name a classic song with a two-word title. Drop the first letter. Add an R after the new first letter. The result will be the names of two countries one after the other. What song is this?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: &#8220;Piano Man&#8221; by Billy Joel &#8211;&gt; Iran, Oman<\/p>\n<p>   Winner   <\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s winner is Jocelyn Tutak of Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>   This week&#8217;s challenge   <\/p>\n<p>Rearrange the letters of &#8220;NECESSARY MISPRINT&#8221; to spell a familiar phrase.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, June 11 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR On-air challenge As you probably know, the N.B.A. finals are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-689753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}