{"id":456857,"date":"2026-02-08T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456857\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:55:08","slug":"rockets-alperen-sengun-replaces-shai-gilgeous-alexander-in-asg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456857\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets’ Alperen Sengun replaces Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in ASG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston<\/a>‘s Alperen Sengun<\/a> was added to the roster for the NBA All-Star Game, being selected as a replacement pick on Sunday for Oklahoma City<\/a>‘s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sengun, who becomes Turkey’s first two-time All-Star, after also being picked last season, will take Gilgeous-Alexander’s place on the World team in the Feb. 15 event at the LA Clippers<\/a>‘ home in Inglewood, California.<\/p>\n

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 per game this season for the Rockets.<\/p>\n

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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’s head coaches.<\/p>\n

Silver also added the Clippers’ 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. World format to the required 16 — ensuring that each team would have the required minimum of eight players.<\/p>\n

There are two U.S. teams in the event and 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 games will last 12 minutes, or one standard NBA quarter.<\/p>\n

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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston‘s Alperen Sengun was added to the roster for the NBA All-Star Game, being selected as a replacement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-456857","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\/456857","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=456857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}