HOUSTON \u2013\u00a0Today, the NBA announced that Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun was selected as a replacement player for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game.\u00a0He joins Kevin Durant who was selected as an All-Star reserve on Feb. 1.\u00a0Dating back to 2014-15, it is the second time two Rockets have been selected to an All-Star Game (James Harden and Russell Westbrook in 2019-20).<\/p>\n
Sengun is making his second-straight All-Star appearance.\u00a0Last season, he became the Rockets first All-Star since 2020.\u00a0Sengun is the 12th player in franchise history to be selected an All-Star multiple times.<\/p>\n
This season, Sengun is averaging 20.8 points, 9.4 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 1.41 steals and 1.00 blocks.\u00a0Larry Bird (1984-85), Kevin Garnett (2002-03) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (2023-24) are the only players in NBA history to have averaged at least 20.0 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 6.0 apg, 1.00 spg and 1.00 bpg in a single season.<\/p>\n
Earlier this season, Sengun became the seventh player in NBA history to have reached his totals of points, rebounds and assists through the first 300 games of a career and the second to have done so while adding steals and blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013\u00a0Today, the NBA announced that Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun was selected as a replacement player for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3794],"tags":[1307,7,292,194,4066,6,7218,211,79468],"class_list":{"0":"post-593060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-houstonrockets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-all-star-game","15":"tag-rockets","16":"tag-rockets-alperen-sengun"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116042214063656544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593060","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=593060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}