Alperen Şengün carried his family's dreams for years. Can he carry the Rockets?
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He remembers his coach’s words, back when he was just 12 years old. Back when he was growing up in Giresun, Turkey, a historic city on Turkey’s Black Sea coast.“You got to be the one.”Alperen Şengün was only a middle-schooler, but he realized he had to quickly grow up. Become the man his family needed him to be. Which meant leaving everything and everyone behind and pursuing basketball at a renowned Turkish hoops club far away, in a city about 650 miles west of his hometown, on the southern coast of the Sea of Marmara.Advertisement




