Other historic rookie duel stats:

• Kon Knueppel’s 8 3-pointers made is a new rookie franchise record for Charlotte.
• Knueppel also ties the rookie record for most games with 5+ 3-pointers made (13). He is now tied with Saddiq Bey, who had 13 such games in 2021.
• Cooper Flagg becomes the youngest player in NBA history to total 40+ points and 10+ rebounds in a game.
• Flagg also joins LeBron James (3x) and Anthony Edwards (2x) as the only teenagers in NBA history with multiple 40+ point games.

Edit: fixed typos.

Surely having both of them on the same team would win you a NCAA title right?

Kon’s first half was lights out.

Coop in the second half. “Hold my beer”

Crazy that both shot 60+% from the field and from 3, and both 100% from the line. 

This game was an instant classic, and also… guys… are my Hornets good now?

Reminds me of that Bron vs Melo rookie battles, Flagg is gonna be a menace

He’s made 153 3s through 47 games. Keegan Murray holds the record for most threes in a season by a rookie with 206.

He’s on pace for 273.

cooper was clutch as hell down the stretch, then Kon made the game winning play god damn. What a duel.

One things for sure, one of them will be the ROTY

That Charlotte team is fun. They even made our team look fun. Other teams in those draft positions look death with no players development like Utah, the Nets, Wiz etc but the Hornets look like they are having fun.

This is going to be quite the show they put on over the years. I hope they keep it old school and never join together.

Never thought I’d see two non European whiteboys putting up numbers like this, as rookies at that lol. Both these kids are bonkers

Kon’s release is so simple (in a great way) and I feel like he somehow sped it up in the off season – he’s getting some contested 3’s off I don’t think he would have been able to last year.

Coop has a great chance to be the best transition/downhill scorer since younger LeBron

Incredible performance by both!

Between these two and Wemby, watching their generation start to light the NBA on fire, I feel fucking ancient lmao

It’ll be a head-to-head race between these two for ROTY, but I’ve got Coop winning it.

college roommates

They told me Zion and RJ would be this.

UnKoncious.

People do all this crying about AAU and USA development. There’s truth to there being problems, but we still produce the most/best talent in the world by an exponential margin.

Coop only had 2 points the first quarter?

Bruh are they seriously rookies? Holy shit

I really like how Flagg’s game has translated to the NBA so far. He was a really cool mix of creative scoring, gritty drives, controlled handles, and body control for his size.

Most broadcast shots are barely zoomed-out 720p, can we not downgrade immediately?

Truly exciting whites!

Coop said “how dare you let the white boy guard me” in the second half

the whites are here and they are SPICEY

Yeeted rivalry

When you hooping against your hb and so you lwk get takeover

Flagg keeps the choke alive 😭

I will never get over how big that dude’s head is

So? Kobe Brian and Smush Parker combined for 94 points once