Nicola Topic, the Thunder\u2019s No. 12 pick in 2024, missed all of his rookie season with a torn ACL. Then he showed up at Summer League and reminded everyone why he was a lottery pick.<\/p>\n
He looked good in the Thunder\u2019s preseason as well.<\/p>\n
Now comes news that Topic is out following what the team called a \u201ctesticular procedure.\u201d He will be re-evaluated in 4-6 weeks, meaning he is expected to be out for at least the first few weeks of the season and potentially until around Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s bad news for Topic, it won\u2019t impact the Thunder on the court, OKC is more than deep enough at the guard and wing spots. That starts with MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, but also includes Cason Wallace, Alex Caruso, Aaron Wiggins, Isaiah Joe and Ajay Mitchell (another promising young player deserving of more run).<\/p>\n
Two other deep bench players for the Thunder, Thomas Sorber (ACL) and Kenrich Williams (knee surgery), also will miss the start of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicola Topic, the Thunder\u2019s No. 12 pick in 2024, missed all of his rookie season with a torn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-196416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196416","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=196416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}