Rockets' Sengun agrees to 5-year, $185M deal

by Anthony S. Hansen
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Houston Rockets middle Alperen Sengun has agreed on a five-year, $185 million rookie extension, his brokers Sean Kennedy and Jeff Schwartz of Excel Basketball, advised ESPN’s Bobby Marks.

The contract features a participant choice within the final 12 months.

The deal comes forward of a 6 p.m. ET deadline for rookie extensions. Sengun turns into the primary participant to signal a five-year rookie extension and have a participant choice since Luka Doncic and Trae Younger.

Sengun, 22, blossomed into an All-Star candidate final season — and earned a third-place end in Most Improved Participant voting — by averaging 21.3 factors, 9.3 rebounds and 5 assists per recreation for Houston earlier than his season was minimize quick by an ankle damage.

He was considered one of simply six gamers to common a minimum of 21, 9 and 5 final season, with the others being Doncic, Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid and Julius Randle.

Sengun was taken with the sixteenth general choose within the 2021 NBA draft by the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder — with a choose that initially belonged to the Boston Celtics as a part of the deal that despatched Kemba Walker to OKC in alternate for Al Horford — earlier than instantly being re-routed to the Rockets.

He joins Jalen Inexperienced, who additionally agreed to a three-year, $106 million deal on Monday, as members of the 2021 class the Rockets have secured long-term.

ESPN’s Tim Bontemps contributed to this report.

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