{"id":515974,"date":"2026-01-04T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/515974\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:46:34","slug":"rockets-all-star-alperen-sengun-exits-game-vs-mavericks-with-ankle-sprain-after-1-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/515974\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets All-Star Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn exits game vs. Mavericks with ankle sprain after 1 minute"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Rockets got 64 seconds from Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn on Saturday. They can only hope they don’t get even less in their next several games.<\/p>\n

The All-Star center exited Saturday’s 110-104 loss to the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> after rolling his right ankle while rebounding, roughly one minute into the first quarter. He soon limped to the bench then left for the locker room.<\/p>\n

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The Rockets initially announced him as questionable to return with an ankle sprain, then downgraded him to out.<\/p>\n

The Rockets lost the game 114-110<\/a>, with back-up center Clint Capela posting 8 points on 4-of-8 shooting, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks.<\/p>\n

The injury could interrupt a career year for \u015eeng\u00fcn. After making his first All-Star Game last year, he entered Saturday averaging career highs in points per game (22.6), while leading the Rockets in rebounds (9.3) and assists (6.7). He is a major reason why Houston is off to a 21-11 start, good for fourth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

\u015eeng\u00fcn has a history of injuries with that ankle, as his breakout 2023-24 season ended early due to a grade 3 sprain sustained in March. The Rockets will likely know more about this injury on Sunday, if imaging is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets got 64 seconds from Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn on Saturday. They can only hope they don’t get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[1307,7168,7,984,686,149,4057,194,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-515974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-ankle-sprain","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-clint-capela","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-mavericks","14":"tag-dallasmavericks","15":"tag-houston-rockets","16":"tag-mavericks","17":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115836668108777328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}