{"id":386688,"date":"2026-01-04T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:20:08","slug":"rockets-alperen-sengun-exits-loss-with-sprained-right-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386688\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets&#8217; Alperen Sengun exits loss with sprained right ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/macmahon_tim.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tim MacMahonJan 3, 2026, 10:03 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS &#8212; All-Star center <a data-player-guid=\"dad4f5fb-9739-38ac-b3b5-5d7937c29232\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4871144\/alperen-sengun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alperen Sengun<\/a> exited early in the first quarter of the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"78113ad4-1ac7-0c04-dada-388a6ff4e15e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a>&#8216; 110-104 road loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f00d1f4e-4ce6-d581-466c-5b52531cf7ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> on Saturday night because of a lateral sprain of his right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Sengun was ruled out for the rest of the game before the start of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Houston backup center <a data-player-guid=\"1173a086-95c4-a53b-2b28-3a646057f63f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2991235\/steven-adams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Adams<\/a> missed his second consecutive game with a right ankle sprain, leaving <a data-player-guid=\"795d3c20-7138-9c79-aecd-02ce8fe56558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3102529\/clint-capela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clint Capela<\/a> as Houston&#8217;s only available big man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonJan 3, 2026, 10:03 PM ET CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-386688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}