{"id":477414,"date":"2026-01-06T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477414"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:37:27","slug":"houston-rockets-sengun-out-10-14-days-with-right-ankle-sprain-udoka-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/houston-rockets-sengun-out-10-14-days-with-right-ankle-sprain-udoka-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets: \u015eeng\u00fcn out 10-14 days with right ankle sprain, Udoka says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1777\" data-end=\"2059\"><strong data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"1809\">Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn<\/strong> is expected to miss <strong data-start=\"1830\" data-end=\"1847\">10 to 14 days<\/strong> after spraining his right ankle on Saturday against the Mavericks.<br data-start=\"1914\" data-end=\"1917\" \/>According to <strong data-start=\"1930\" data-end=\"1943\">Ime Udoka<\/strong>, the injury happened just over a minute into the game when \u015eeng\u00fcn landed awkwardly while battling for a loose ball.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2061\" data-end=\"2299\">Udoka said the Rockets will re-evaluate \u015eeng\u00fcn at the end of the week before setting a firmer timetable.<br data-start=\"2165\" data-end=\"2168\" \/>\u201c<strong data-start=\"2169\" data-end=\"2236\">Probably in the two-week range\u2026 you\u2019re looking at 10 to 14 days<\/strong>,\u201d he said, emphasizing swelling, pain tolerance, and mobility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2301\" data-end=\"2522\">\u015eeng\u00fcn had recently returned after missing Houston\u2019s final two games of 2025 with left calf tightness.<br data-start=\"2403\" data-end=\"2406\" \/>He is averaging <strong data-start=\"2422\" data-end=\"2467\">22.6 points, 9.3 rebounds and 6.7 assists<\/strong>, anchoring Houston\u2019s offense as a premier passing big.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2524\" data-end=\"2690\"><strong data-start=\"2524\" data-end=\"2540\">Steven Adams<\/strong> returned Monday vs Phoenix after missing two games with a right ankle sprain.<br data-start=\"2618\" data-end=\"2621\" \/>His availability provides frontcourt depth while \u015eeng\u00fcn is sidelined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets will be without Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn for up to two weeks after he sprained his right ankle vs Dallas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":377622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Houston-Rockets.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477414"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477414"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477414"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}