{"id":462208,"date":"2026-02-08T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:21:07","slug":"nba-says-alperen-sengun-will-be-the-injury-replacement-for-gilgeous-alexander-at-the-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462208\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA says Alperen Sengun will be the injury replacement for Gilgeous-Alexander at the All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Houston\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/alperen-sengun\/1323508\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/alperen-sengun\/1323508\" target=\"_blank\">Alperen Sengun<\/a> was added to the roster for this season\u2019s NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, being selected as a replacement pick for Oklahoma City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/shai-gilgeous-alexander\/1067856\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/shai-gilgeous-alexander\/1067856\" target=\"_blank\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sengun \u2014 who becomes Turkey\u2019s first two-time All-Star, after also being picked last season \u2014 will take Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s place on the World team in the Feb. 15 event at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>\u2019 home in Inglewood, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gilgeous-Alexander had to withdraw from the game because of a strained abdominal muscle. Sengun is averaging 20.8 points, 9.4 rebounds and 6.3 assists this season for the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NBA Commissioner Adam Silver chooses injury replacements. The first 10 All-Stars are selected in a system of weighted votes from fans, media and current NBA players, and the 14 players designated as reserves are chosen in balloting by the league\u2019s head coaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Silver also added the Clippers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kawhi-leonard\/512591\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kawhi-leonard\/512591\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> to the All-Star roster last week. Leonard was needed to bring the total number of U.S. All-Stars for the new U.S. vs. The World format to the required 16 \u2014 ensuring that each team would have the required minimum of eight players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There are two U.S. teams in the event, one World team. The teams will play a round-robin tournament, then the top two teams will meet again in the All-Star final. All four of those games will last 12 minutes, or one standard NBA quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sengun is one of only two All-Stars from Turkey. Mehmet Okur is the other, getting his lone All-Star selection in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston\u2019s Alperen Sengun was added to the roster for this season\u2019s NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, being selected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-462208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}