{"id":226038,"date":"2025-09-14T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/226038\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:30:10","slug":"an-unexpected-and-strong-kon-knueppel-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/226038\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected And Strong Kon Knueppel Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 _16w9vov6 _16w9vov5 ls9zuh1\">Duke fans got a good idea of just how good Kon Knueppel could be early last year from the Brotherhood Podcast, which asked every member of the team this question: who has surprised you most?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To a man, they said Kon Knueppel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It didn\u2019t take long to see why. He was smart, as we saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/dcg-WAPK4qc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when he did this<\/a>, and he unveiled a really solid all-around game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now a Charlotte Hornet, we\u2019re waiting to see how well his game translates to the NBA. Our guess is better than a lot of people expected, not least of all because he can really shoot, but also because he\u2019s wicked smart. Someone asked Cooper Flagg last year what he\u2019d want if he was on a desert island. Flagg said, a gun, some food and Kon Knueppel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">From Bill Simmons, who doesn\u2019t just think Knueppel is going to be good, but who thinks that he\u2019s going to be a key asset for\u2026wait for it\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You know, we could imagine that, but it honestly hadn\u2019t occurred to us. It\u2019s an interesting take and it makes sense. Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke fans got a good idea of just how good Kon Knueppel could be early last year from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[24370,2575,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-226038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-alumni","9":"tag-main","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115202426580306750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}