Connections Sports Edition #782 Answers, November 14, 2026

Connections: Sports Edition #782, the Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026 puzzle from The Athletic and New York Times (NYT) Games, puts names from several sports on one board and leaves the sorting to you. Two hints per color open one tap at a time. Answers stay below the spoiler heading.

One entry carries a fresh piece of sports news, covered after the answers. The rules are on our Connections page.

Saturday’s hints, #782, Nov. 14, 2026

Sort the sixteen tiles by what they are before you sort them by sport: some are surnames, some are first names, some are ordinary words.

• Yellow hint 1: Every tile is a move in a sport played on ice.
• Yellow hint 2: Each is a kind of jump, and two of the four start with the same letter.
• Green hint 1: All four are surnames of players on one National Basketball Association (NBA) roster.
• Green hint 2: The surnames run from five letters up to nine, with two of them at five.
• Blue hint 1: These are baseball names, the kind a broadcaster can say without adding a surname.
• Blue hint 2: All four are five or six letters long, and each belongs to someone who has won the same award in the same league.
• Purple hint 1: Change the first letter of each tile and you get a surname.
• Purple hint 2: The replacement letter is different on all four tiles, and the new names belong to pro football players.

What makes Saturday’s board slippery

Three of the colors are built from names, and the fourth is built from plain words, so a quick scan finds more “names” than any one group can hold. A first guess based on type alone can cost a mistake.

Start with the group whose rule you can state in one sentence, then let the leftovers sort themselves. Keep a streak sheet on a printable weekly calendar if you play daily. Yesterday’s page is Connections: Sports Edition #781, and the main game has its own Connections hints and answers for Nov. 14.

Saturday’s answers, #782, Nov. 14, 2026 (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it. Beebom and Nerdschalk list the same four groups and sixteen entries.

• Yellow, “Figure Skating Jumps”: Axel, Loop, Lutz, Salchow
• Green, “Golden State Warriors”: Curry, Green, Horford, Lendeborg
• Blue, “AL MVPs, Familiarly”: Aaron, Mookie, Shohei, Yordan
• Purple, “NFL RBs, With the First Letter Changed”: Hook, Naylor, Tall, Talker

Who each entry is

• Golden State Warriors: Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Al Horford and Yaxel Lendeborg are all on the Warriors roster at NBA.com.
• AL MVPs, Familiarly: MLB.com’s Most Valuable Player award history lists Aaron Judge (New York Yankees; American League (AL) winner in 2022, 2024 and 2025), Mookie Betts (Boston; 2018), Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Angels; 2021 and 2023) and Yordan Alvarez (Houston; 2026).
• Purple wordplay: Hook becomes Cook, Naylor becomes Taylor, Tall becomes Hall and Talker becomes Walker, all surnames of NFL running backs (RBs).
• Figure Skating Jumps: four jump types in figure skating.

This year’s winner on the board

Yordan is the newest name in the blue group: MLB.com lists Alvarez as the 2026 AL winner. Judge, Betts and Ohtani are the other three names. Green holds the other trap, since Green is a surname that reads like a color and sits with the Warriors, not with anything else on the board.