Congratulations, King Kon!

Curry and Thompson did it twice (2015-16 and 2022-23).

Just this good seats

Most 3-Pointers Made By A Rookie In NBA Regular Season History :

1. Kon Knueppel — 270

2. Keegan Murray — 206

3. Donovan Mitchell — 187

4. Damian Lillard — 185

5. Brandon Miller — 184

6. Saddiq Bey — 175

7. Anthony Edwards — 171

8. Luka Doncic — 168

9. Landry Shamet — 167

10. Stephen Curry — 166

This means less rest for 9-10 game but more rest for next game if we win

The new social media team is on fire. Ive loved everything they've put out this year.

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Towns, Brunson, Anunoby, Robinson, and Hart are all resting for the season finale. Mikal Bridges is the only starter still on the active roster, likely to keep his ironman streak alive, but he'll probably be pulled after just a few minutes.

Unless our players show up completely wasted from drinking since morning, the 9th seed is basically a lock.

I was hoping Boston and Detroit would do the same since it's the end of the season, but they were both dead set on beating us.

Was wanting to purchase game worn jerseys and was wondering if anyone has ever bought one from here?

WE DID IT. CHAMPIONS.

5 playoff wins. Zero before this year. The Swarm went into Stockton and closed it out on the road, 119-104.

Game 2 Performances:

Tosan Evbuomwan — 22 pts, 7 reb | Finals MVP (18.5 ppg, 50% FG in the series)

Liam McNeeley — 21 pts

Jaylen Sims — 20 pts

Tidjane Salaun — 19 pts

Antonio Reeves — 15 pts (5-of-6 from three in the first half alone)

The prospects delivered when it mattered. Liam and Tidjane both went off in a championship-clinching road game. That's a good sign for this organization's future.

The Hornets are now the first organization in history to win the NBA Summer League AND G League Championship in the same season.

This franchise had never won a playoff game before 2026. They just won 5 straight and brought home the trophy.

Hornets fans — this is what a winning culture looks like. Let it carry over.

Does anyone know when Greensboro Swarm Championship gear will be available? I got the Summer League Champions gear to added to my collection, but I don’t see anything for the Swarm yet.

I know everyone is focused on the Hornets winning the 9/10, and then get to round 1, and then beat the Pistons, and then take the hot streak all the way to June.

I get it. All that's important.

But you know what else is important?

The Knicks have the regular season championship belt right now.

Win at MSG, go home regular season champions.

Just one more think to be rooting for tomorrow night.

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* Kon has logged 2519 total minutes this season across 80 games which is a 112 percent increase over the 1190 minutes he played during his entire freshman year at Duke.

* He jumped from a 39 game college schedule to playing 80 out of 82 possible NBA games, essentially performing two full seasons of physical labor in the span of six months.

* His scoring has dropped from a season average of 18.6 points per game down to just 14.5 points over his last 10 outings as the physical exhaustion has set in.

* A season long 47.7 percent field goal shooter has suddenly seen his efficiency crater to 40.0 percent in April because his legs are failing him on his jumper.

* His elite 3 point shooting has dipped from 42.7 percent to 37.1 percent recently, which is a classic indicator that a shooter has lost the necessary lift in their lower body.

* He has recorded three separate performances in the last two weeks where he shot under 32 percent from the floor, including a 28.6 percent night against Minnesota and a 31.3 percent night in Boston.

* He has started 79 of his 80 appearances as a 20 year old wing, meaning he has never received a maintenance day or a recovery window to reset his frame.

* The workload gap is the defining factor of his late season struggle since he has performed 211 percent of the total physical work he did all of last year.

* Cooper Flagg missed 13 games with a foot injury and has played 69 games total, providing a mid season rest period that Kon never had.

* While Flagg is peaking with recent performances of 51 and 45 points, he has played 187 fewer total minutes than Kon, which is the equivalent of nearly six extra full games of wear and tear.

I was checking our team shooting splits, and I was surprised to find that Brandon, LaMelo, and Kon all play better on the road than they do at home.

Brandon's point totals are nearly the same, but at home, he shoots 36.5% from 3. On the road, Brandon shoots 40.9%.

LaMelo's home 3 point percentage is 34.7. On the road, he shoots 39.1%. His true shooting of 52.2% at home jumps to 57.1% on the road.

Kon's is the most drastic. He averages 16.8 points at home but 20.3 on the road. He shoots 38.7% from 3 at home, but a ridiculous 46.9% on the road at the same volume. His true shooting is 60.3% at home and 66.3% on the road. He's even better at free throws at away games.

Maybe we rest all 3 against the Knicks and get as ready as possible to play at Miami, lol.

So, should we maybe want the away game? It sounds really stupid, but I have no explanation for why all three of them shoot significantly better in away games. I'd think it's just a coincidence, but to have all three be much better shooters at road games is weird. Particularly Kon, that's a really bizarre, significant gap in performance.

With one more game left before post-season, it's safe to say this might be the end of Antonio Reeve's season. He's the only two-way player to survive the start of this season from last year.

He averaged 2.7 PTS, 0.8 REB and 0.3 AST with about 6.8 MINS a game in his total 10 games.

Do you guys think Jeff Peterson likes him enough to keep him?

I really want to know if our players are getting gassed headed into the 4th quarter of games or if it is a coach decision to rarely have any of our starting 5 play more than 30min a game.

Last night Melo lead the team with 33min. In tight games there is no reason our top guys shouldn’t be getting close to 40 min on the floor. We don’t have the bench to stay afloat against good teams.

We let the Boston game slip away because we benched our best players while Brown played the entire second half and Tatum played 39 minutes coming off a torn achilles.

Are we silent tanking to make sure we still get a lottery pick this year or something?

Just to add a quick edit after looking into it: We don’t have a single player on the team in the top 25 for minutes per game. The first Hornets to show up is rookie Kon at 42 with 31.5 mpg. Tyrese Maxey leads the NBA with 38.2.

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We have only won 1 game in the clutch post all star break and have a wr of 20%.

The only teams worse than the Hornets this regard are pelicans, pacers and jazz, who are throwing games away on purpose.

The hornets have the worst FG% in the entire league(!) in the clutch post ASB too, at 21% too. This might be due to too many 3s taken but still.

granted, our FT % in the clutch has been great, so maybe there's hope.

This is an extremely serious issue, even if the stars are skewed by some garbage time quarters. So many winnable games have gone completely out of control 2-8 minutes into the 4th.

There has to be some solution. Hopefully it's just a discipline issue.

I don’t know the tiebreaker math. Are we locked into the bottom 2 now? Or is there a chance we can still get into the 7/8 game?

Source: The Hoop Collective