The NBA Rookie of the Year battle between the Charlotte Hornets’ Kon Knueppel and the Dallas Mavericks’ Cooper Flagg is heating up as the 2025-26 NBA season rages on. Now, he sat down on The Tonight Show to talk about being named Rookie of the Month alongside Flagg, according to a post on X from The Tonight Show.
The road's been unkind to the Charlotte Hornets this season; they've only won one game away from home in eleven tries. Wednesday night was the latest defeat on foreign soil for the Bugs, as they fell 119-104 to the New York Knicks.
Christmas might be right around the corner, but there will be no gifts for the Charlotte Hornets in the upcoming weeks. They could certainly use them, currently sitting on a 6-15 record.
Heading into this season, the Charlotte Hornets were hoping to be contending for a playoff spot. At the very least, the play-in seemed to be within reach for the first time in half a decade.
LaMelo Ball had one of his best games of the season and a near triple double, but he didn’t get enough help as the Hornets lost to the Knicks. The Hornets played one of the worst first quarters I’ve seen in quite a while.
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Coming off one of the worst losses of the season against the Nets, the Charlotte Hornets traveled across the Brooklyn Bridge to take on the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
Hate it or love it, the NBA has become a transactions-first league. Many people who consume the sport do so through Shams Charania notifications and permutations of the trade machine rather than watching the beautiful game unfold on the hardwood.
LaMelo Ball and trade rumors have pretty much always been inseparable. Even with Charlotte Hornets head coach Charles Lee recently suggesting that LaMelo will be a Hornet for a long time, buzz persists about Melo's potential exit from Buzz City.
The Charlotte Hornets have the chance to put a disappointing loss in Brooklyn behind them with a matchup against the New York Knicks on deck. A quick trip on the C train will deliver the Hornets to MSG from Brooklyn, and they'll arrive at the station with revenge on the brain.
The NBA announced its rookies of the month for October and November on Tuesday, and to no one’s surprise, Kon Knueppel was the recipient for the Eastern Conference.
The Hornets are preparing to be active once again this trade season, and this time Miles Bridges is expected to be at the center of their discussions. According to Evan Sidery, Charlotte plans to explore potential deals for the forward after nearly moving him at last year’s deadline.
When the Charlotte Hornets hired Charles Lee, expectations were sky-high. Fresh off a championship run as an assistant with the Boston Celtics, Lee’s blend of offensive creativity and defensive discipline was billed as the perfect fit for a franchise desperate for direction.
Many did not think the 2025 NBA rookie class would be anything special outside of Cooper Flagg. Well, we are learning very quickly that there are several rookies becoming essential parts of their new organizations outside of Flagg, and none more than Kon Knueppel with the Charlotte Hornets.
One of the main storylines entering this NBA season was the Rookie of the Year race, with Dallas Mavericks number one overall draft pick Cooper Flagg expected by most to be the favorite for the award.
An earlier report that LaMelo Ball was open to the Charlotte Hornets trading him was ridiculed by Ball himself. He put a clown emoji on it on social media and told reporters outright that it was false and that it didn't come from him or anyone in his camp.
After back to back wins, the Charlotte Hornets took on the 3-16 Brooklyn Nets in the first of a three game road trip. Shortly before game time, wing Brandon Miller and guard Tre Mann were downgraded to out, meaning the Hornets would be slightly shorthanded for Monday night's matchup.
Kon Knueppel's uncle worked the Michigan-Ohio State game Saturday. Perhaps that inspired the Charlotte Hornets rookie, who hit a game-tying three-pointer in the final seconds to force overtime in Charlotte's 118-111 win over the Toronto Raptors.
Miles Bridges scored 10 of his 35 points in overtime and the Charlotte Hornets, after a huge fourth-quarter run, knocked off visiting Toronto 118-111 in overtime on Saturday night, ending the Raptors' nine-game winning streak.
Brandon Miller's season-high 27 points and Miles Bridges' 22 points carried Charlotte to a 123-116 NBA Cup victory over visiting Chicago on Friday night that snapped a seven-game losing streak.
As is the case most seasons for the Charlotte Hornets, it's been a disappointing start to the year. Charlotte will enter Wednesday's NBA Cup contest against the New York Knicks at 4-13 and slowly falling further back from the No. 10 seed in the Eastern Conference.