{"id":121695,"date":"2025-09-05T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121695\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:12:07","slug":"thunder-rookie-thomas-sorber-to-miss-season-with-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121695\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder rookie Thomas Sorber to miss season with torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/macmahon_tim.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tim MacMahonSep 6, 2025, 07:52 AM<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> rookie big man <a data-player-guid=\"662a5a94-8cf3-33c4-8d91-f950cae85e12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061603\/thomas-sorber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Sorber<\/a> tore the ACL in his right knee and will miss the 2025-26 season, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Sorber, the 15th overall pick in the draft out of Georgetown, suffered the injury during a workout in Oklahoma City on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This will be second straight season that an Oklahoma City first-round pick missed the entire season due to an ACL tear. Guard <a data-player-guid=\"d4609779-e07b-36a5-910e-bc4a44a46013\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5159925\/nikola-topic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Topic<\/a>, the No. 12 pick in 2024, was recovering from surgery when the Thunder selected him in the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Sorber averaged averaged 14.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 2.0 blocks and 1.5 steals per game as a freshman at Georgetown last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonSep 6, 2025, 07:52 AM CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-121695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}