A few days before Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to play an NBA game this month, his mother invited him to dinner. “Invite whoever you want,” she said. Unable to get a hard headcount of attendees from their son, Knueppel’s parents, Chari and Kon Sr., had prepared 15 pounds of chicken fajitas. But seeing a dozen players, several more than 7 feet tall, step out of the bus, they started preparing 10 additional pounds of fajitas. “We’ve done it before,” Nordgaard Knueppel said. “It’s having five sons, making three meals a day. That’s lots of practice.” Knueppel's four younger brothers — who are in eighth, ninth, 10th and 11th grade and also play basketball at a high level — "did a good job of ... not freaking out," he said, while conceding that one of his brothers had tried to dunk on star guard LaMelo Ball on a miniature hoop inside the home. Read more at the link in bio.