{"id":74374,"date":"2025-08-16T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74374\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:30:07","slug":"kevin-durant-uses-one-word-to-describe-new-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74374\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant uses one word to describe new teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Rockets should follow Kevin Durant on social media for entertainment. Recently, he took to X to describe new teammate Alperen Sengun.<\/a> His description was perfect. <\/p>\n

Side note: Durant is a hilarious follow. His willingness to engage with fans should not go unnoticed either. Durant is a human being like anybody else, and he’s less concerned with looking flawed than other NBA superstars. <\/p>\n

That said, there was nothing controversial about his description of Sengun. Durant only needed one word to describe his new teammate: <\/p>\n

He found the perfect adjective. <\/a><\/p>\n

Rockets’ Kevin Durant understands his new teammate <\/p>\n

“Different” <\/p>\n

-Kevin Durant describing Alperen Sengun <\/p>\n

What else needs to be said? <\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen the clip that inspired the comment, you need to go find it. Sengun transitions flawlessly from a crossover into a spin move, penetrates from the three-point line to the rim, and finishes with a slam. It was the type of perimeter creation you won’t see from many – if any – big men in the NBA. That makes sense: <\/p>\n

Alperen Sengun defies comparison. <\/p>\n

Rockets’ Alperen Sengun is incomparable <\/p>\n

So, let’s use this as an opportunity for a PSA: <\/p>\n

Sengun is not Nikola Jokic. He’s not Domantas Sabonis. Those are superficial comparisons, and it’s time we stop making them. <\/p>\n

For starters, he’s unlikely to ever be as good as Jokic. That’s not a knock – nobody is. Some consider Jokic the best offensive player in NBA history. Meanwhile, Sengun has every opportunity to surpass Sabonis if he hasn’t already. <\/p>\n

More broadly, he plays differently from either. Sure, there are parallels. All three men are bigs with exceptional passing skills. That’s about the extent of the similarities.<\/p>\n

He’s significantly more agile than either. You won’t see Sabonis hit this type of dribble move. He’s more of a bruiser who needs an entry pass – Sengun has shown more perimeter creation skills. <\/p>\n

That agility differentiates him from Jokic on the defensive end. Jokic is strictly a drop coverage rim-protecting big. Sengun’s ability to defend in space is surprising. He can hedge and recover more capably than most NBA big men. <\/p>\n

So, Durant’s description is apt. Sengun is different. Right now, he’s showing out for Turkey in Eurobasket. He had 25 points in this contest against Germany while shooting 9\/11 from the field. Rockets fans know the young star is primed <\/a>for a big 2025-26 season, and his new superstar teammate knows that too: <\/p>\n

He recognizes exactly how different Sengun is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets should follow Kevin Durant on social media for entertainment. Recently, he took to X to describe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-74374","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\/74374","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=74374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}