Houston Rockets are preparing to give a new contract to Alperen Şengün. If he gets a max contract, Alperen can earn $225 million in 5 years. Alperen, who increased his statistics this season, deserves to receive a max contract. It's not easy to find such a good center. If he gets this contract, Alperen will make history in Turkish sports. The Turkish athlete will be the one who earns the most. And he's still very young. He has already become a player who will write his name in history.
Just don't get too cocky in getting his new contract this has happened to a few NBA stars after getting their max contract they suddenly change and are barely practicing like what happens to Ben Simmons and Jordan Poole after getting their max contract they were truly exposed not having something with the team and a disappointment for them, I think those 2 really fits the bill.
I agree that it can happen to him and we have witnessed number of times that it happened. He is also very very young. I hope he will not do the same mistakes as other players who got huge contracts. His situation is little bit different, thankfully. He was always very good for his age, almost always the best player and he was also his country's league MVP at the age of 18 before coming to the Nba. He seems like a very down to earth guy and very hardworker.
I'm not sure Rockets are doing the right thing though. He is extremely young and still missing some things from his game, like shooting. I realize it is very hard to find great centers and he seems like a future all star, but it might be too risky to give him this much in this stage of his career. Unrelated but Rockets are surprisingly doing good without him. After Sengun's injury, I thought season is almost over for Rockets. It will be a great success if they can make it to the play-ins.