{"id":657882,"date":"2026-03-14T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/657882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:45:38","slug":"rockets-alperen-sengun-wont-play-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/657882\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets&#8217; Alperen Sengun: Won&#8217;t play Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773337819_581_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/HOU\/houston-rockets\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/342.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/26646084\/sengun\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sengun<\/a> (back) has been ruled out for Friday&#8217;s game against the Pelicans, Adam Wexler of Sportstalk 790 Houston reports.<\/p>\n<p>Sengun popped up on Thursday&#8217;s injury report due to lower-back pain. The injury is severe enough for the fifth-year center to sit out Friday&#8217;s contest, and he&#8217;ll look to progress enough in his recovery to return for Monday&#8217;s game against the Lakers. Clint Capela will likely enter the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/HOU\/houston-rockets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rockets<\/a>&#8216; starting five in Sengun&#8217;s absence, and Amen Thompson, Reed Sheppard and Kevin Durant should all see increased responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sengun (back) has been ruled out for Friday&#8217;s game against the Pelicans, Adam Wexler of Sportstalk 790 Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[1307,7,2825,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-657882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-fantasy-basketball","11":"tag-houston-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116227365843035228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657882","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=657882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}