A year ago, Tyrese Haliburton was voted the most overrated player in the NBA in The Athletic's end-of-season player poll. That moniker lasted about a day, if it even did in the first place. Exactly two months after the poll was released, the Indiana Pacers were playing in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals.

In this year's poll , the 'most overrated' label belongs to Houston Rockets center Alperen Şengün. The two-time All-Star received 12.3% of the 81 votes cast (10 votes), beating out Rudy Gobert and Trae Young (8.6% each) for the title.

Şengün's surface-level numbers don't scream 'overrated,' not at all. He averaged 20.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.1 blocks per game, and while the three-point shooting was underwhelming (30.5%), he still went 51.9% from the field.

Written by Josh Robbins, Sam Amick and Joe Vardon, the staff isn't even fully sure why the Turkish big man received the title.…