{"id":456051,"date":"2026-02-08T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456051\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:44:07","slug":"alperen-sengun-houston-rockets-centre-sorry-for-sexist-remark-at-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456051\/","title":{"rendered":"Alperen Sengun: Houston Rockets centre sorry for sexist remark at official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident involving Sengun occurred on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, with the Rockets <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HoustonRockets\/status\/2019093952679596263\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">posting a message from Kevin Durant, external<\/a> to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes, you can&#8217;t control yourself, but I should have known better,&#8221; added Sengun, who was speaking after registering a triple double of 17 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists in a 112-106 win against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I fixed it, and then I went to the locker room and I apologised. I shake [her] hand and said that would never happen again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just happened in the heat of the moment. Then, she understood, and it was good on both ends.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident involving Sengun occurred on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, with the Rockets posting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-456051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456051","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=456051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}