Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel have been named the Kia NBA Western and Eastern Conference Rookies of the Month for January.
You have to go back seven years to find a stretch in which two young players dominated the NBA’s Kia Rookie of the Month conference honors as completely as Dallas’ Cooper Flagg and Charlotte’s Kon Knueppel have this season.
In the spring of 2018-19, Luka Dončić (then with the Dallas Mavericks) and Trae Young (then with the Atlanta Hawks) each snagged three in a row from January through March, the former in the West, the latter in the East. Flagg and Knueppel have done that so far in 2025-26, their selections announced Tuesday.
When it came time for voters to cast ballots for the Kia Rookie of…