Nikola Jokic was 20 years 8 months, and 9 days (or 7556 days old) when he debuted in the NBA. [Source](https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=2&d1=19&y1=1995&m2=10&d2=28&y2=2015) He was born 2/19/1995, and his debut game was when he was 10/28/2015 (coincidentally against the Houston Rockets)
Alperen Sengun was 19 years 2 months, and 25 days (or 7027 days old) when he debuted in the NBA [Source](https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=07&d1=25&y1=2002&m2=10&d2=20&y2=2021). He was born 07/25/2002 and debuted on 10/20/2021.
Alperen Sengun is currently 20 years 5 months, and 13 days old (or 7471 days old). This means Alperen Sengun is still about 3 months younger than Jokic in his first game in the NBA and Sengun won’t reach the age Jokic was during his debut NBA game until April of this year. Pretty interesting that everything Sengun is accomplishing at his current age right now is younger than Nikola before he even stepped on an NBA court.
If you watched the Nuggets closely in 2015 and paid particular close attention to their 2nd round bigman named Jokic that they drafted, you are a better man than me. I will not comment on the tape but still think it is interesting to look at the stats.
If you compare the stats rookie season of Sengun to the Rookie Season of Jokic, as well as the Sophomore season of Sengun to the Sophomore season of Jokic, Sengun holds up pretty well but Jokic still has the edge pretty much across the board. However, when you factor in that Sengun is over a year younger when you compare season to season, you can make the argument that Sengun has superior stats to Jokic during same point in their careers.
What is important is Sengun still has to improve and there is no guarantee of that happening. Also want to add, that it is a dangerous game comparing players to HoFers and it can lead to disappointment. I just thought it might be interesting and I important to remember just how young Sengun is.
by StudentMed
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I put this into a comment because I didn’t want to muddy up above by talking about other names but I am also a Suns fan and I will admit I have been bit using this on another player and it bit me. I liked Doncic and Ayton in the draft and when the Suns drafted Ayton rooted for him and hoped he can be a David Robinson or Joel Embiid type dominant center. I used to excuse Deandre Ayton for not putting up the numbers that Embiid and Robinson did because he was younger than they were the first couple years in the league. However, Ayton just never became the players that I have hoped and even when you compare to the same age players of those other two, there is just no comparison. Want to reiterate that you can never assume players will continue to improve year in and year out and they may just plateau at any moment comparing players to HoFers is dangerous.
he is not gonna be jokic lmao
he’s more likely to be budget sabonis than jokic
Height and weight matter. I love Alpi but if he’s equal to Joker one day statistically and impact, then he is much better than Joker ever was.