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02/08 11:07 CST NBA says Sengun will be the injury replacement for
Gilgeous-Alexander at the All-Star Game
NBA says Sengun will be the injury replacement for Gilgeous-Alexander at the
All-Star Game
By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
Houston's Alperen Sengun was added to the roster for this season's NBA All-Star
Game on Sunday, being selected as a replacement pick for Oklahoma City's Shai
Gilgeous-Alexander.
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 Los Angeles Clippers' home in Inglewood, California.
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
this season for the Rockets.
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.
Silver also added the Clippers' Kawhi Leonard 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. The World format to the required 16 --- ensuring that each team would have
the required minimum of eight players.
There are two U.S. teams in the event, 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 of those games will last 12 minutes, or one standard NBA
quarter.
Sengun is one of only two All-Stars from Turkey. Mehmet Okur is the other,
getting his lone All-Star selection in 2007.
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