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NBA New Year’s resolutions<\/p>\n

We’re handing out New Year’s resolutions for teams and players across the NBA.<\/p>\n

Houston Rockets<\/a> center Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn suffered an ankle injury early in the first quarter against the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

He appeared to roll his ankle after jumping for a rebound attempt, landing on Mavericks center Daniel Gafford’s foot.<\/p>\n

\u015eeng\u00fcn went back to the locker room to be evaluated by the team\u2019s medical staff. He did not return, officially ruled out coming out of halftime.<\/p>\n

Clint Capela entered the game in place of \u015eeng\u00fcn with 10:56 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

The Turkish player, a 2025 All-Star, collected just one rebound in one minute of play. Houston leads Dallas 31-25 at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n

\u015eeng\u00fcn had missed two games due to a calf injury and returned for a road game against the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n

The Rockets center has averaged 22.6 points, 9.3 rebounds and 6.7 assists in 27 games played this season.<\/p>\n

The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news \u2014 fast.\u00a0Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA New Year’s resolutions We’re handing out New Year’s resolutions for teams and players across the NBA. Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[1495,1307,7,670,247,686,149,4057,6788,2619,6789,292,194,166,6,671,62,67,61,81,211,876,66,83],"class_list":["post-517292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-alperen","tag-alperen-sengun","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-daniel","tag-daniel-gafford","tag-gafford","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-rockets","tag-sengun","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115840207158986093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517292","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=517292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}