Drill - likely
Fence - another sport
Glass - rebound off the glass
Screen - likely
Storm - maybe a WNBA team? Not sure.
Thumb - use your hands/fingers to shoot
Thunder - OKC
not sure what the Onion overlap is but going to just focus on the best 4 basketball clues:
Cricket
Storm
Match
Troll
Grace
Thumb
Gas
Paddle
Blacksmith Thunder
Bulb
Smell
Glass
Drill
Ground
Screen
Curry Einstein
Button
War
Cherry
Africa
Air
Saddle Fence
Great guessing dizzy!!!! GG red, we sunran game 1 and this one had quite the connectible list. I wanted to say something like electric or electricity as it hit 4 of ours but unfortunately fence was there. I thought something like Durant - 5 but red had match and I didn't want any equity with him being on the fence potentially about switching teams.
A lot of the list related to basketball so the most challenging thing was getting past bulb, smell, and ground - I thought of Onion(capitalized for the Beatles song Glass Onion) and then as long as those were out of the way the last 5 could be linked pretty easily. Red ended up guessing Curry but I just would have capitalized and gone Basketball - 5 if they didn't.
It is best to play a board game with friends, it will be more interesting. I personally recommend Jenga and Carcassone and of course Codenames. By the way, the more Jenga tower, the more fun. https://jenga-game.com/reviews/jenga-giant-js7/