Get more Rockets news: Houston team feed<\/a>]<\/p>\nThis is the second straight All-Star appearance for \u015eeng\u00fcn. The 23-year-old has averaged 20.8 points, 9.4 rebounds and 6.3 assists this season. \u015eeng\u00fcn is one of three players averaging at least 20.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists this season, joining the Hawks’ Jalen Johnson and Nuggets’ Nikola Joki\u0107. Both players were also selected for the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n
\u015eeng\u00fcn will represent Turkey in the new All-Star format that will be played, featuring two US teams and one World team in a robin-round mini-tournament with four 12-minute games.<\/p>\n
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\u015eeng\u00fcn will join players such as Joki\u0107, the Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama and Lakers’ Luka Don\u010di\u0107 on the World team. The team will be coached by Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
\u015eeng\u00fcn will also join Rockets forward Kevin Durant in the game. The Rockets join the Pistons, Lakers, Knicks and Nuggets as teams that have multiple All-Stars.<\/p>\n
Durant will play for the USA Stripes team. Durant has averaged 25.9 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.4 assists in his first season with the Rockets. The Rockets are 32-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA announced that Houston Rockets center Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn will replace Oklahoma City guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[1495,1307,7,677,292,194,40415,4066,2990,938,304,300,368,6,253,302,475,76,297,211,209,567,534,693,79432],"class_list":["post-592774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-rockets","tag-alperen","tag-alperen-sengun","tag-basketball","tag-hawks","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-houston-team","tag-houstonrockets","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-kevin-durant","tag-knicks","tag-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-nuggets","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-orlando-magic","tag-pistons","tag-rockets","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-shams-charania","tag-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama","tag-world-team"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116041545591189253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592774","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=592774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}