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Kon Knueppel leads Cooper Flagg in the NBA Rookie of the Year race by a comfortable margin in a straw poll conducted by ESPN's Tim Bontemps with 80 first place votes compared to 20 for the Dallas Mavericks franchise player. Flagg entered the season as a comfortable Rookie of the Year favorite and largely met expectations, but Knueppel has had a historical season as the Charlotte Hornets have surged into the play-in picture. Knueppel is averaging 18.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists while...

Charlotte rookie Kon Knueppel set the Hornets' franchise record for 3-pointers in a season.

Another sad loss on the road

Charlotte Hornets forward Kon Knueppel continues to state his case to be the 2025-26 NBA Rookie of the Year.

Phoenix guard Collin Gillespie set the Suns’ franchise record for 3-pointers in a season on Thursday night. Gillespie set the mark in the second quarter of the Suns' game against the Charlotte Hornets. Also in the game, Charlotte rookie Kon Knueppel set the Hornets’ franchise record for 3-pointers in a season.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 28 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder routed the Los Angeles Lakers 139-96 on Thursday night. Only six times in their storied history have the Lakers been defeated by more points. Gilgeous-Alexander, the reigning league MVP, got the best of his matchup with Los Angeles' Luka Doncic — the league's scoring leader and one of Gilgeous-Alexander's top competitors for this season's award.

The Rockets became the fifth Western Conference team to secure a playoff spot on Thursday when Phoenix lost at Charlotte, per the NBA (Twitter link). Houston is currently 47-29, the No. 5 seed in the West, while No. 7 Phoenix dropped to 42-35. There’s no way for the Suns to make up the 5.5-game deficit […]

The Suns look to secure a much needed win

Sixers guard VJ Edgecombe has been named the Eastern Conference’s Rookie of the Month for March, while Kings big man Maxime Raynaud has won the award for the Western Conference, the NBA announced today (Twitter link). Edgecombe’s win prevents Hornets wing Kon Knueppel from achieving a clean sweep of Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month […]

The Charlotte Hornets get ready to host the Phoenix Suns in an inter-conference clash between two Playoff hopefuls currently stuck in the Play-In Tournament.

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The divide between playoff contenders and lottery-bound teams has reached unprecedented levels this season, exposing a structural problem that is fundamentally altering the competitive landscape of the NBA, according to a report by Yahoo's Tom Haberstroh. The combined gap between the No. 10 and No. 11 seeds in each conference has ballooned to 20.5 games, nearly double the previous record this century. In the Eastern Conference, the No. 10-seeded Charlotte Hornets hold a 9.5-game cushion over ...

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Phoenix Suns (42-33, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (40-36, 10th in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Charlotte Hornets host the Phoenix Suns in non-conference action. The Hornets are 19-19 on their home court. Charlotte ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference at limiting opponent scoring, allowing just 111.4 points while holding opponents to 46.7% shooting. The Suns are 18-19 in road games. Phoenix is 7-10 in one...

In Tuesday’s 117-86 loss to Charlotte, Saraf had three assists but just as many turnovers. And two nights earlier, he’d handed out six dimes but coughed it up five times to counter them.

The Eastern Conference season moves toward its conclusion this Tuesday as the Brooklyn Nets host the Charlotte Hornets at the Barclays Center. Charlotte (39-36) enters the contest in a battle for postseason positioning, currently sitting fourth in their division. Meanwhile, the Nets (18-57) are looking to finish a difficult season on a high note, recently snapping a losing streak with a hard-fought victory. With the season series currently split 1-1, tonight's game serves as the tiebreaker. C...

Is Kon Knueppel rookie of the year?

The Brooklyn Nets will attempt to win back-to-back games for the first time in nearly a month when they host the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday. They’ll be shorthanded as they attempt to do so. With Michael Porter Jr., Egor Demin, and Day’Ron Sharpe sidelined indefinitely, the Nets ruled out Terance Mann (left Achilles soreness) and […] The post Nets remain shorthanded for Hornets matchup after snapping 10-game skid appeared first on ClutchPoints.

The NBA has started the process of lining up voters for postseason awards, and if form holds from recent years the ballots will be due shortly after the end of the regular season. Defensive Player of the Year might not take voters very long (spoiler alert, it’ll be San Antonio's Victor Wembanyama) and Rookie of the Year is basically going to be a two-contender race (a Duke guy will win; it’s TBD if it’ll be Charlotte's Kon Knueppel or Dallas' Cooper Flagg). When talking MVP, for example, logi...

After a big win in Charlotte, the Sixers laid an egg against the middling Heat.