{"id":625515,"date":"2026-02-26T06:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625515\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:36:36","slug":"kon-knueppel-breaks-nba-record-for-fastest-to-200-three-pointers-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625515\/","title":{"rendered":"Kon Knueppel breaks NBA record for fastest to 200 three-pointers made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 25, 2026, 1:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knueppel set a new NBA record for the fastest player to make 200 three-pointers.Knueppel achieved the milestone in 58 games, surpassing the previous record of 69 games held by Duncan Robinson.Knueppel is a leading contender for Rookie of the Year, competing with his former Duke teammate Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cooper Flagg <a href=\"http:\/\/dukewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/duke\/mens-basketball\/2026\/01\/30\/cooper-flagg-nba-record-kon-knueppel-wins\/88430170007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has already broken some NBA records<\/a> in his rookie season. Now, his former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/duke-blue-devils\/1388\/\" data-autotag=\"d9e0b712-2f57-4d7c-998e-25a7ac4fbc0d\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Duke<\/a> roommate, Kon Knueppel, has an NBA record of his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On Tuesday night, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/charlotte-hornets\/5312\/\" data-autotag=\"e256e96c-b58f-4300-a36c-9b2c6d336797\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> guard became the fastest player in league history to make 200 three-pointers, doing it in 58 games, passing Duncan Robinson (69 games) and Keegan Murray (77 games).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The shot came early in the third quarter of the Hornets\u2019 131-99 victory over the Chicago Bulls, as Knueppel came off a screen and nailed the three from the top of the arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The fourth-overall pick by the Hornets in the 2025 NBA Draft, Knueppel is battling his former teammate and roommate for Rookie of the Year honors, taking a slight lead as Flagg continues to recover from a midfoot sprain he suffered on Feb. 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 25, 2026, 1:30 p.m. ET Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knueppel set a new NBA record for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[72400,7,684,473,3878,685,6,74643,73480,72404,72468,72452,72598,73149,73413,72444,72422,72570,72405,72439,72406,72558,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-625515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-charlotte","11":"tag-charlotte-hornets","12":"tag-charlottehornets","13":"tag-hornets","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sstssportscollegedukemens-basketball","16":"tag-sstsnmens-basketball","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-tagcharlotte-hornets","19":"tag-tagcollege-sports","20":"tag-tagcooper-flagg","21":"tag-tagduke-blue-devils-mens-basketball","22":"tag-tagkeegan-murray","23":"tag-tagnational-sports","24":"tag-tagnba","25":"tag-tagnba-draft","26":"tag-tagoverall-positive","27":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","28":"tag-tagsports-news","29":"tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","30":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625515","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=625515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}