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Knueppel is the first player known to accept an invitation to the eight-man field. Whoever else joins him, Knueppel projects as a threat to win the contest.<\/p>\n
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Kon Knueppel is reportedly the first known player to accept an invitation to the NBA 3-point contest.<\/p>\n
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Knueppel has burst on to the NBA scene since the Hornets selected him with the No. 4 pick in the NBA Draft out of Duke. He’s become an instant-impact player for Charlotte while averaging 18.7 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game. He’s shooting 42.5% on 7.8 3-point attempts per game.<\/p>\n
His 3.3 made 3s per game are tied for seventh in the NBA. His 42.5% success rate ranks 14th among players with 150 or more attempts. A Hornets team that finished 19-63 last season has already surpassed that win total with a 23-28 record through Tuesday and has a shot at competing for its first playoff berth since 2016.<\/p>\n
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The 3-point contest will take place as part of the NBA’s All-Star Saturday showcase alongside the Skills Challenge and the Slam Dunk Contest. All-Star Saturday is scheduled for Feb. 14 and will take place at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, home of the Los Angeles Clippers. The All-Star game will be played the following day.<\/p>\n
NBC will broadcast the NBA’s All-Star weekend for the first time since 2002 in its first season back as a broadcast partner in 24 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie Charlotte Hornets sharpshooter Kon Knueppel is reportedly headed to the NBA’s All-Star weekend. Per NBA insider Chris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,1717,685,968,135,6,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-581276","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-chris-haynes","13":"tag-hornets","14":"tag-kon-knueppel","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-the-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116010926811839614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581276","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=581276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}