basketball · Charlotte Hornets · SF/SG · age 20 · about a year
Kon Knueppel is one of 82 player entries in The Card Investor. Age 20, listed at SF/SG, currently with Charlotte Hornets — filed under basketball.
Accessibility lands mid-table at 55. The obvious cards have moved, but there are still parallels and lesser versions priced sensibly if you're willing to hunt. That hunting is where the actual work of this one sits.
Breakout (84) and card upside (84) sit close together, which is the straightforward case: if the performance arrives, the cards should follow it rather than shrug.
Set against the 10 basketball breakout picks scored here, its breakout of 84 ranks 3rd of 10, card upside 84 ranks 5th, accessibility 55 ranks 5th, and risk 32 is the 2nd-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Cameron Boozer, which scores 86 and 88 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
A one-year horizon means you're betting on a single body of work — one season, essentially. That's a much narrower bet than a career, and it should be sized like one.
At 32, this is one of the calmer entries in here. Read that as relative: the floor under any card is whatever the next person will pay, and that number can move a long way in a month.
Every entry gets four separate scores instead of one grade, because a single grade hides the thing you needed. Full explanation in the guide: how to spot a breakout before the cards move.
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