{"id":461825,"date":"2025-12-08T23:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/461825\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:19:01","slug":"kon-knueppel-hits-5-3-pointers-scores-21-points-to-lead-hornets-past-raptors-111-86-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/461825\/","title":{"rendered":"Kon Knueppel hits 5 3-pointers, scores 21 points to lead Hornets past Raptors, 111-86"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Kon Knueppel hit five 3-pointers and scored 21 points and the Charlotte Hornets beat the Toronto Raptors 111-86 on Friday night to end a two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Knueppel added eight assists, and Miles Bridges had 15 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n

Hornets guard LaMelo Ball had 11 points, two rebounds and three assists in 12 minutes before leaving the game with left ankle soreness.<\/p>\n

Immanuel Quickley scored a season-high 31 points for Toronto. The Raptors lost at home to the Los Angeles Lakers 123-120 the night before.<\/p>\n

Scottie Barnes had 13 points and five assists. Raptors reserve forward Jamison Battle left the game with 11 minutes left after spraining his left ankle.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Hornets: Host Denver on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Raptors: Host Boston on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Kon Knueppel hit five 3-pointers and scored 21 points and the Charlotte Hornets beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,3715,6437,966,61753,150,10510,6,446,1567,1136,1773,1261,66,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-461825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-immanuel-quickley","14":"tag-jamison-battle","15":"tag-lamelo-ball","16":"tag-local-news-for-apple","17":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","18":"tag-miles-bridges","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-basketball","21":"tag-nc-state-wire","22":"tag-new-york","23":"tag-north-carolina","24":"tag-scottie-barnes","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115686510682975048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}