{"id":472528,"date":"2025-12-02T21:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=472528"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:31:26","slug":"cooper-flagg-kon-knueppel-named-nba-rookies-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cooper-flagg-kon-knueppel-named-nba-rookies-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel named NBA Rookies of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg and Charlotte Hornets wing Kon Knueppel are the first <strong>NBA Rookies of the Month<\/strong> of the 2024\/25 season, representing the Western and Eastern Conference respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The two players, who were college teammates at Duke, become the first pair from the same school to win the award in the same month since the NBA began handing out separate honors for each conference in the 2001\u201302 season.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg \u2014 the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft \u2014 is averaging 16.7 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 3.5 assists per game.<br \/>\nKnueppel \u2014 selected No. 4 overall by the Hornets \u2014 is putting up 18.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 3 assists, while shooting 41% from three.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cooper Flagg Named @kia  Western Conference Rookie of the Month!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iz4bNtKrPjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kon Knueppel Named @kia  Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V1d416HjaGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg and Charlotte Hornets guard-forward Kon Knueppel have been named the Kia NBA Western and Eastern Conference Rookies of the Month, respectively, for games played in October\/November.<\/p>\n<p>Both winners are from the same college (Duke), a first\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ybbpbPj2yw\">pic.twitter.com\/ybbpbPj2yw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1995944601400553506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both winners are from the same college (Duke), a first since the NBA began awarding the honor in each conference in 2001-02.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":472527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-472528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/G7MFAtjX0AAVpZj.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472528"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=472528"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=472528"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=472528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}