{"id":121990,"date":"2025-09-06T00:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121990\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:51:09","slug":"thunder-1st-round-pick-thomas-sorber-tears-acl-will-miss-rookie-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121990\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder 1st-round pick Thomas Sorber tears ACL, will miss rookie season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1837692\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1837692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2225453159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1837692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Sorber was drafted 15th overall in this year\u2019s draft by Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 Thomas Sorber will miss the entirety of what was to be his rookie season with the NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder, the team said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sorber tore the ACL in his right knee on Thursday, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-10 center was the No. 15 pick in this year\u2019s draft out of Georgetown. This is the second consecutive year that the Thunder have seen a first-round pick be sidelined for the entire season because of an ACL injury; it also happened last year with guard Nikola Topic, the No. 12 pick in the 2024 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Sorber averaged 14.5 points and 8.5 rebounds for the Hoyas in his lone college season before turning pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Sorber was drafted 15th overall in this year\u2019s draft by Oklahoma City. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 Thomas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85,85894],"class_list":["post-121990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-thunder-thomas-sorber-acl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121990","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=121990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}