{"id":364942,"date":"2025-12-23T04:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364942\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T04:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:37:08","slug":"hornets-rookie-kon-knueppel-fastest-player-to-make-100-3s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364942\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel fastest player to make 100 3s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 22, 2025, 10:54 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"377633c2-0dd1-91a1-83c0-9ed2d0c00ea1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cha\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> rookie <a data-player-guid=\"d706a855-1bca-34f6-9dd7-6684dd22c3ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061575\/kon-knueppel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel<\/a> became the fastest player in NBA history to make 100 3-pointers in Monday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401810257\/hornets-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">139-132 loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec79ad1f-e6d2-7762-a2db-7fe97d35126b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavaliers<\/a> in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Knueppel entered the game with 99 3s in 28 games. He made his 100th with 49.2 seconds left in the first quarter and finished the game 5-of-7 from distance for 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Fastest to Reach 100 3s in NBA HistoryGamesKon Knueppel29Lauri Markkanen41Keegan Murray42Luka Doncic42Brandon Miller43<\/p>\n<p>At 29 career games, Knueppel finished 12 games ahead of the next-fastest player to 100 3s (<a data-player-guid=\"87ff7f1b-e52a-b236-308c-878d12df8446\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066336\/lauri-markkanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauri Markkanen<\/a> in 2017-18).<\/p>\n<p>Knueppel, 20, drafted with the No. 4 pick this past summer, is off to a blistering start to his NBA career. The former Duke star entered Monday&#8217;s game averaging 19.4 points while shooting 40.9% from 3 on 8.6 attempts per game.<\/p>\n<p>It was a hard-fought game against the Cavs, with 12 leads changes and 10 ties before intermission. The win snapped Cleveland&#8217;s three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 22, 2025, 10:54 PM ET Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel became the fastest player in NBA history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-364942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364942","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=364942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}