A family invited their NBA son to dinner. The whole team showed up.

When Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to play an NBA game this month, his mother hosted the entire team for dinner.

A few days before Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to play an NBA game this month, his mother sent him a text.

She had noticed the Hornets would be in town on a day off before the Nov. 14 matchup. Would Kon, a 6-foot-7 guard, have time to stop by home to have dinner with his parents and four younger brothers?

“Invite whoever you want,” she said.

“He texted back a couple hours later and said, ‘I think I’m gonna invite the whole team,’” Chari Nordgaard Knueppel told NBC News’ Sam Brock.

Neighbors stood in their driveways, snapping pictures, as a busload of Hornets players parked nearby. 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, the menu item that had become the family's go-to when it hosts Super Bowl parties.