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Alperen Sengun has been voted the NBA's most overrated player in an anonymous poll, following a disappointing playoff performance. This comes after Tyrese Haliburton was similarly labeled last year, only to prove critics wrong shortly after.
Tyrese Haliburton made a fool of his NBA peers a year ago.
In April 2025, an anonymous player poll by The Athletic showed he was voted as the league's most overrated player. By that June, he was one win away from winning an NBA championship, tearing his Achilles in Game 7 after one of the most impressive playoff runs in recent memory.
This year, however, they might be closer to getting it right after voting Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun as the league's most overrated player. And we can use the playoffs as a good gauge of their judgement in the same way we used last postseason to determine they were wrong about Haliburton. Because instead of stepping up as Houston's offensive leader with Kevin Durant out, Sengun scored fewer than 20 points in four of those five games against the Lakers, including the last three.
Houston has now been upset in the first round of the playoffs in two straight years under his watch.
And if that isn't reason enough, Sengun occasionally being referred to as "Baby Jokic" should be proof enough of him being overrated. Because while he certainly has some bright moments, and his talent is undeniable, he hasn't come close to reaching the level of Jokic. Clearly, players think it's time to pump the brakes on that hype.
But they weren't all right. Rudy Gobert tied with Trae Young as the second-most overrated player, which proves this poll was conducted before his masterful job against Jokic in the playoffs. And Karl-Anthony Towns being voted fourth-most overrated feels a little off too. as the NBA's most underrated player was a good call, though.
Alperen Sengun was voted the most overrated player due to his underwhelming performance in the playoffs, where he scored fewer than 20 points in four out of five games.
Tyrese Haliburton, voted the most overrated player last year, went on to have an impressive playoff run, nearly winning an NBA championship before suffering an injury.
The Houston Rockets were upset in the first round of the playoffs for two consecutive years while Alperen Sengun was leading the team.
The anonymous player poll reflects the perceptions of NBA players regarding their peers, indicating that they may have misjudged Haliburton last year but are now more aligned in their assessment of Sengun.
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If you say so.
If you asked any random NBA fan who the leader of the Nuggets is, they would rattle of several names before even thinking about fourth-year star Christian Braun. And, according to Braun, they would've been wrong.
Braun claimed to be the vocal leader of the Nuggets in a recent story by The Denver Post. And not to take anything away from the 25-year-old, but this explains a lot about why the team is where it is. It's a massive indictment of Nikola Jokic, writes Robert Zeglinski:
"I'm sorry, WHAT? Braun is theĀ vocal leaderĀ on a team featuring one of only nine NBA players ever to win three MVP awards, a guard known as one of the greatest playoff risers in playoff history, and a forward widely recognized as one of the Association's premier glue guys in the 2020s? Really?! No disrespect intended to Braun, but that responsibility shouldn't be on him. If he was their leader in this capacity, then they may as well have had no leader at all."
A young role player shouldn't have to play leader for a team of vets.
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