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<\/p>\nByTim MacMahon <\/p>\n
Sunday, January 4, 2026 4:21AM<\/p>\n
DALLAS — All-Star center Alperen Sengun<\/a> exited early in the first quarter of the Houston Rockets<\/a>‘ 110-104 road loss to the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>on Saturday night because of a lateral sprain of his right ankle.<\/p>\n Sengun was ruled out for the rest of the game before the start of the second half.<\/p>\n Sengun landed awkwardly after grabbing a rebound in traffic. The Rockets called a timeout with 10:56 remaining in the quarter so he could check out of the game.<\/p>\n Sengun, 23, a first-time All-Star last season, is averaging career highs of 22.6 points, 6.7 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.0 block in addition to 9.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n Houston backup center Steven Adams<\/a> missed his second consecutive game with a right ankle sprain, leaving Clint Capela<\/a> as Houston’s only available big man.br\/]<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByTim MacMahon Sunday, January 4, 2026 4:21AM DALLAS — All-Star center Alperen Sengun exited early in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":491408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[221513,5723,4345,3136,1260,50,207934,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-491407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-221513","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sengun-alperen","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115836004178450903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}