{"id":909965,"date":"2026-09-26T05:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T05:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:02:12","slug":"charlotte-hornets-knueppel-could-miss-start-of-season-after-injuring-left-hamstring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909965\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets\u2019 Knueppel could miss start of season after injuring left hamstring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/charlotte-hornets\/5312\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/charlotte-hornets\/5312\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kon-knueppel-1043244\/1519132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kon-knueppel-1043244\/1519132\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel<\/a> will miss the entire preseason and possibly the team\u2019s regular-season opener after sustaining a left hamstring injury during on-court activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team said Friday that Knueppel, who led the NBA in 3-pointers last season as a rookie, will be reevaluated during the first week of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hornets open the regular season on Oct. 21 against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The No. 4 pick in the 2025 NBA draft, Knueppel averaged 18.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 81 games. He was runner-up for NBA Rookie of the Year, first team All-Rookie and a four-time Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month. He made 273 3s, shattering the previous rookie record of 206 held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/keegan-murray-872524\/1231161\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/keegan-murray-872524\/1231161\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hornets forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/grant-williams\/949273\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/grant-williams\/949273\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Williams<\/a> will also miss the preseason with a hamstring injury and will be evaluated during the first week of the season, the team said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full NBA coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knueppel will miss the entire preseason and possibly the team\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-909965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909965","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=909965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}