Alperen Şengün is sprinting down his own path even faster than The Joker ever did. Nikola Jokic – Year 5 🔸 19.9 PPG 🔸 9.7 RPG 🔸 7.0 APG 🔸 31.4 3P% Alperen Sengun – Year 5 🔸 22.3 PPG 🔸 9.1 RPG 🔸 6.9 APG 🔸 44.7 3P% And to be fair… Jokic’s “5th season” was really just his 3rd year as a full-time starter. This was a rare plateau year for a guy who finished 4th in MVP voting in Year 4, then went on to win 3 MVPs in the next 4 seasons. Since then, he inevitably changed the entire blueprint for big men. He’s the reason NBA teams stopped hiding their 7-footers in the dunker spot and started letting them run offenses like point guards. His rise, along with Joel Embiid and Karl-Anthony Towns, kicked off the modern center revolution: shooting from everywhere, playmaking for everyone. Sengun? He’s not Jokic. He’s not trying to be Jokic. But if you zoom out… his climb is happening earlier, faster, and louder than most non-Rockets fans want to admit. Superstar path? Right on track. ...