{"id":909647,"date":"2026-09-25T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909647\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:00:12","slug":"charlotte-hornets-star-kon-knueppel-sidelined-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909647\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets star Kon Knueppel sidelined with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Charlotte Hornets will be without Kon Knueppel for at least the entire preseason due to a left hamstring injury, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Knueppel, who was the first rookie to lead the league with 273 made 3-pointers last season, suffered the hamstring injury during offseason on-court activity, the team said. Veteran forward Grant Williams also injured his right hamstring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hornets have ruled both players out for all four of Charlotte&#8217;s preseason games. They will be reevaluated &#8220;during the first week of the regular season,&#8221; according to the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Charlotte opens the season at Brooklyn on Oct. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hornets are hoping to rely even more on Knueppel this season after trading LaMelo Ball to Minnesota over the summer. Knueppel averaged 18.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 42.5% 3-point shooting as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams has averaged 7.2 points and 3.7 rebounds per game during his seven seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets will be without Kon Knueppel for at least the entire preseason due to a left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,172323,314141,459,82],"class_list":["post-909647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charlotte-hornets-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-5312","tag-kon-knueppel-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1519132","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}