{"id":386807,"date":"2026-01-04T05:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386807\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:54:07","slug":"rockets-sengun-leaves-game-vs-mavericks-early-with-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386807\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets&#8217; Sengun leaves game vs. Mavericks early with ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston center Alperen Sengun left the Rockets\u2019 loss to Dallas on Saturday night only 1:04 into play after spraining his right ankle. Sengun landed awkwardly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS(AP) \u2014 Houston center Alperen Sengun left the Rockets&#8217; loss to Dallas on Saturday night only 1:04 into play after spraining his right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Sengun landed awkwardly after grabbing a defensive rebound and fell to the court. As he got into a sitting position, he grabbed at his ankle. He limped to the bench and was soon led to the locker room. The team said at halftime that he wouldn&#8217;t return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Sengun averages 22.6 points, second on the team to Kevin Durant, and leads the team with 9.3 rebounds and 6.7 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets were already playing without reserve big man Steven Adams because of a sprained ankle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rockets-mavericks-score-1f8a2edae88ae7385de0e03225138f4b?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston fell 110-104<\/a> and was outscored 66-54 in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks also lost a starter early. Forward P.J. Washington Jr. played all 12 minutes of the first period and was then ruled out with a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston center Alperen Sengun left the Rockets\u2019 loss to Dallas on Saturday night only 1:04 into play after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-386807","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\/386807","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=386807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}