{"id":861137,"date":"2026-09-26T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861137\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:16:11","slug":"hornets-kon-knueppel-injures-his-left-hamstring-and-could-miss-the-start-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861137\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets&#8217; Kon Knueppel injures his left hamstring and could miss the start of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/charlotte-hornets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kon-knueppel-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The team said Friday that Knueppel, who led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> in 3-pointers last season as a rookie, will be reevaluated during the first week of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Hornets open the regular season on Oct. 21 against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">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 Keegan Murray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Hornets forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/grant-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">See AP\u2019s full NBA coverage here<\/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":861138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11949,13338,22487,2971,355,99],"class_list":["post-861137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-grant-williams","tag-kon-knueppel","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861137","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=861137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}