{"id":623644,"date":"2026-02-25T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/623644\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:19:15","slug":"rookie-knueppel-races-to-nba-three-pointer-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/623644\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Knueppel races to NBA three-pointer record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kon<\/p>\n

Kon Knueppel scored his 200th three-pointer in only his 58th NBA game<\/p>\n

Rookie Kon Knueppel became the fastest player to reach 200 three-pointers in NBA history as the Charlotte Hornets defeated the Chicago Bulls 131-99.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old American scored 21 points, including three three-pointers, while Brandon Miller added 23 as the visiting Hornets condemned the Bulls to a 10th consecutive defeat for the first time since the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n

Knueppel needed only 58 games to tally up his 200th three-pointer – 11 less than previous record holder Duncan Robinson – and is also just the second rookie to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n

With a league-leading 201 three-pointers, Knueppel only needs six more to break Keegan Murray’s record of 206 in 2022-23 for the Sacramento Kings for the most threes made by a rookie in their first season.<\/p>\n

Having played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, Knueppel was drafted as a fourth overall pick by the Hornets in the 2025 draft.<\/p>\n

“It is exciting and refreshing [to coach Knueppel],” said head coach Charles Lee after the Hornets’ eighth straight win on the road.<\/p>\n

“It elevates our whole culture when you have a guy who is that good but that humble and has no ego, and it becomes contagious throughout the whole organisation.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, new signing James Harden scored 20 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers returned to winning ways with a 109-94 victory over the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n

The result helped them draw level on 37 wins and 22 losses with the Knicks, who are third in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Harden, who left the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> this month, is an 11-time NBA All-Star and regarded as one of the greatest guards in history, but the 36-year-old has never won an NBA title.<\/p>\n

“We’re working to build something special, and each game is an opportunity to get better,” said Harden. “Tonight was a good step for us.”<\/p>\n

The Boston Celtics consolidated second place with a 97-81 win over the Phoenix Suns while the Philadelphia 76ers posted a 135-114 win against the Indiana Pacers, who are bottom of the Eastern Conference after reaching the NBA Finals last year.<\/p>\n

Western Conference leaders Oklahoma City Thunder overcame the Toronto Raptors 116-107 while sixth-placed Los Angeles Lakers were edged by Orlando Magic 110-109 and the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 124-121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kon Knueppel scored his 200th three-pointer in only his 58th NBA game Rookie Kon Knueppel became the fastest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,75,970,473,329,193,4958,126,560,3210,968,135,150,307,152,3954,6,191,179,76,207,472,471,477,308,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-623644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-brandon-miller","11":"tag-charlotte-hornets","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","14":"tag-duncan-robinson","15":"tag-indiana-pacers","16":"tag-james-harden","17":"tag-keegan-murray","18":"tag-kon-knueppel","19":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","20":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","21":"tag-minnesota","22":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","23":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-new-york-knicks","26":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","27":"tag-orlando-magic","28":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","29":"tag-phoenix-suns","30":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","31":"tag-sacramento-kings","32":"tag-timberwolves","33":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116130531070418047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623644","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=623644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}