Kon Knueppel didn\u2019t need much time to set a new NBA record this season.<\/p>\n
The Charlotte Hornets rookie is now the fastest player in league history to reach 100 career made 3-pointers. Knueppel needed just 29 games to hit that mark, which he did on Monday night in the Hornets\u2019 139-132 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. That\u2019s 12 games faster than Lauri Markkanen needed when he set the record during his rookie season.<\/p>\n
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Knueppel entered Monday\u2019s game at Rocket Arena with 99 made 3-pointers in his career. He got it done off an assist from Sion James late in the first quarter of the contest.<\/p>\n
Knueppel finished the night with 20 points in the loss, and shot 5-of-9 from behind the arc. He\u2019s up to 105 made 3-pointers on the season, which is the second most in the league only behind Donovan Mitchell.<\/p>\n
Kneuppel shattered the Hornets\u2019 franchise record for fastest player to reach 100 made 3-pointers, too. Brandon Miller did so in 43 games during his rookie campaign.<\/p>\n
Knueppel entered Monday averaging 19.4 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game this season. He\u2019s leading all rookies in scoring, too. The Hornets selected him with the No. 4 overall pick out of Duke this past summer. He averaged 14.4 points and 2.2 made 3-pointers per game in his lone season with the Blue Devils.<\/p>\n
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Despite Knueppel\u2019s historic night, the Hornets couldn\u2019t rally to get past the Cavaliers. Mitchell led the way with 30 points and six made 3-pointers in the win for Cleveland, which pushed them to 16-14 on the season. Darius Garland added 27 points, and De\u2019Andre Hunter finished with 27 points off the bench.<\/p>\n
LaMelo Ball led Charlotte with 23 points and nine assists, and Miller also had 20 points. The loss, the second straight for the Hornets, dropped them to 9-20 on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kon Knueppel didn\u2019t need much time to set a new NBA record this season. The Charlotte Hornets rookie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[74193,11949,8174,27494,13054,22487,25179,72268,355,16961,22496,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-364816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brandon-miller","9":"tag-charlotte-hornets","10":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","11":"tag-darius-garland","12":"tag-donovan-mitchell","13":"tag-kon-knueppel","14":"tag-lamelo-ball","15":"tag-lauri-markkanen","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-rookie-season","18":"tag-sion-james","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}