{"id":331230,"date":"2025-12-06T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331230\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:18:07","slug":"nba-kon-knueppel-hits-5-3-pointers-scores-21-points-to-lead-charlotte-hornets-past-toronto-raptors-111-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331230\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Kon Knueppel hits 5 3-pointers, scores 21 points to lead Charlotte Hornets past Toronto Raptors, 111-86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByAP<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, December 6, 2025 2:21PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC11 24\/7 Streaming Channel\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News, First Alert Weather, and original programming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">TORONTO &#8212; Kon Knueppel hit five 3-pointers and scored 21 points and the Charlotte Hornets beat the Toronto Raptors 111-86 on Friday night to end a two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Knueppel added eight assists, and Miles Bridges had 15 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hornets guard LaMelo Ball had 11 points, two rebounds and three assists in 12 minutes before leaving the game with left ankle soreness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Immanuel Quickley scored a season-high 31 points for Toronto. The Raptors lost at home to the Los Angeles Lakers 123-120 the night before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Scottie Barnes had 13 points and five assists. Raptors reserve forward Jamison Battle left the game with 11 minutes left after spraining his left ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Hornets: Host Denver on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByAP Saturday, December 6, 2025 2:21PM Watch Eyewitness News, First Alert Weather, and original programming. TORONTO &#8212; Kon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[185195,64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-331230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-185195","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}