Kon Knueppel had another big game on Thursday night as the Hornets beat the Knicks for their fifth straight win. Knueppel had 26 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists and Charlotte is now just 1.5 games out of the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Earlier this week Knueppel spoke to Sports Illustrated's Blake Silverman and revealed that playoff positioning is in fact on people's minds in Charlotte: “That’s what we’ve been focused on and we want to get to the upper part of the play-in or maybe even sneak out of it and get the six seed so we don’t have to worry about it."
