Alperen Sengun has been one of the best draft selections made by Houston Rockets General Manager Rafael Stone, dating back to Stone’s hire in 2020. Sengun is the only player among Stone’s ten total draft selections to have made an All-Star team.

And Sengun has pulled off the feat twice. Granted, several of those nine players are no longer with the Rockets (or even in the NBA, for that matter), as TyTy Washington, Usman Garuba and Josh Christopher were shipped out when Ime Udoka was hired as the Rockets' head coach.

Ditto for KJ Martin and Jalen Green, although the latter was moved much later on. The draft is a crap shoot, in any sport. Those things happen to every team.…