{"id":240702,"date":"2026-04-27T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/nba-announces-rookie-of-the-year-winner-between-cooper-flagg-kon-knueppel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:47:32","slug":"nba-announces-rookie-of-the-year-winner-between-cooper-flagg-kon-knueppel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/nba-announces-rookie-of-the-year-winner-between-cooper-flagg-kon-knueppel\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA announces Rookie of the Year winner between Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooper Flagg: 412 total points, 56 first-place votes<\/li>\n<li>Kon Knueppel: 386 total points, 44 first-place votes<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/vj_edgecombe\/928283\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VJ Edgecombe<\/a> (76ers): 96 total points, 1 second-place vote, 93 third-place votes <\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/dylan_harper\/928258\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dylan Harper<\/a> (Spurs): 5 total points and third-place votes <\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/cedric_coward\/928862\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cedric Coward<\/a> (Grizzlies): 1 third-place vote <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/stephen-a-smith-nba-rookie-year-kon-knueppel\/744211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debate between Knueppel and Flagg for the award,<\/a> but the Mavericks star just beat out Knueppel.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg finished the season averaging 21 points with 6.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, while Knueppel had 18.5 points with 5.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists.<\/p>\n<p> Knueppel made NBA history by setting a new record for threes made in a season by a rookie, and that mark was previously made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/sacramento_kings\/91\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> forward Keegan Murray. Knueppel  <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/kon-knueppel-obliterates-nba-rookie-three-point-record\/743304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke that record at the end of February<\/a> after hitting his 207th three-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was quite the season by both rookies, and the future looks bright for the two former Duke stars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/nba_announces_rookie_of_the_year_winner_between_cooper_flagg_kon_knueppel\/s1_127_43780211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg: 412 total points, 56 first-place votes Kon Knueppel: 386 total points, 44 first-place votes VJ Edgecombe (76ers): 96 total points, 1 second-place vote, 93 third-place votes Dylan Harper (Spurs): 5 total points and third-place votes Cedric Coward (Grizzlies): 1 third-place vote There was a lot of debate between Knueppel and Flagg for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}