A bright sidebar to Charlotte rookie Kon Knueppel’s first game back in his hometown of Milwaukee was his family’s invitation to bring the entire team over for dinner. The image of the Hornets’ chartered team bus rumbling down Knueppel’s street even dazzled the 6-foot-7 rookie.

“Taking the bus down my street, going home, that was weird,” Knueppel said before the game against the Bucks last Friday. “And a bunch of NBA players in my house. It was a lot of big people, but my family enjoyed it.

“Mason [Plumlee], one of our vets … he was like, ‘I’ve never done this before, never gone to a teammate’s house. So that was cool to hear him say that. It was a special hour and a half for us.”

Over the coming months of this NBA season, it could get weird for Knueppel that another teammate with whom h

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