{"id":475992,"date":"2025-12-27T08:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475992"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:43:50","slug":"charlotte-hornets-kon-knueppel-exits-with-ankle-injury-x-rays-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/charlotte-hornets-kon-knueppel-exits-with-ankle-injury-x-rays-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets\u2019 Kon Knueppel exits with ankle injury; X-rays negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1361\" data-end=\"1604\">The <strong data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1420\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Charlotte Hornets<\/span><\/span><\/strong> beat the <strong data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1471\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Orlando Magic<\/span><\/span><\/strong> 120-105, but lost <strong data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1531\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kon Knueppel<\/span><\/span><\/strong> to a right ankle injury late in the second quarter. He did not return.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1733\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1627\">Charles Lee<\/strong> said the X-rays were <strong data-start=\"1649\" data-end=\"1661\">negative<\/strong>. Knueppel will be evaluated again when the team returns to Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1735\" data-end=\"1941\">The injury happened when Knueppel landed on Desmond Bane\u2019s foot while defending a drive and twisted his ankle. He had <strong data-start=\"1855\" data-end=\"1868\">16 points<\/strong>, all in the first quarter, hitting <strong data-start=\"1904\" data-end=\"1914\">4-of-4<\/strong> from three before exiting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kon Knueppel suffered a &#8220;right ankle injury&#8221; and will not return tonight, team says. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PP9Dyjv5Zl\">https:\/\/t.co\/PP9Dyjv5Zl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vcH59TIVFf\">pic.twitter.com\/vcH59TIVFf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 r\/CharlotteHornets (@HornetsReddit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HornetsReddit\/status\/2004725071986770109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 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>Rookie Kon Knueppel injured his right ankle and did not return in Charlotte\u2019s 120-105 win over Orlando<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":475991,"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":[179,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-475992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-27-alle-08.39.09.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475992","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475992"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=475992"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=475992"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=475992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}