{"id":336090,"date":"2025-12-09T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:13:13","slug":"atlanta-hawks-forward-jacob-toppin-receives-unfortunate-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336090\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks Forward Jacob Toppin Receives Unfortunate Injury Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6q\">Atlanta Hawks forward Jacob Toppin, who was on a two-way contract with the team, was injured during a College Park Skyhawks G-League game on Nov. 29th and the Hawks announced today that Toppin is going to be out for the season. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6t\">&#8220;Two-way forward Jacob Toppin sustained a right shoulder injury on Nov. 29 during the third quarter of the College Park Skyhawks game at Delaware. Toppin underwent surgery today at the Emory Sports Medicine Complex to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder, and will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emoryhealthcare?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@emoryhealthcare<\/a> injury update: <\/p>\n<p>Two-way forward Jacob Toppin sustained a right shoulder injury on Nov. 29 during the third quarter of the College Park Skyhawks game at Delaware. Toppin underwent surgery today at the Emory Sports Medicine Complex to repair a torn labrum in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EP12Crpv95\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EP12Crpv95<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/1998169578740895794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6z\">Toppin has been a valuable two-way player for the Hawks and when he has gotten in NBA action, he has shown a nice ability to score the ball. He was having a nice season in the G-League and the Skyhawks are going to miss him on the floor. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This play was the one that ended Toppin&#8217;s season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JymqCnH8K\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/9JymqCnH8K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Chouinard (@KLChouinard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KLChouinard\/status\/1998170329525727663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"75\">Toppin was heading into his second season with the Hawks. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"78\">Toppin, originally signed by Atlanta to a two-way contract on March 4, 2025, appeared in one game with the Hawks during the 2024-25 campaign, netting a career-high 17 points on 6-12 shooting from the field and 5-8 from deep, four rebounds and two assists in 26 minutes in a win over the Orlando Magic on April 13. He saw action in 17 NBA games this past season with Atlanta and New York.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7b\">The Kentucky product appeared in 23 games (20 starts) in the NBA G League during the 2024-25 season with the College Park Skyhawks and Westchester Knicks, registering 22.3 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 36.6 minutes (.503 FG%, .371 3FG%, .812 FT%). In the regular season portion of the NBA G League season, Toppin was one of only four NBA G League players to average at least 20.0 points (22.6) and 8.0 rebounds (8.0).\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7e\">Over the course of his two-year career, Toppin has appeared in 26 NBA games and 65 NBA G League contests (61 starts). He owns NBA G League career averages of 19.4 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 35.6 minutes of action.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7h\">The Brooklyn, New York, native saw action in 116 collegiate games (40 starts) with Rhode Island (2019-20) and Kentucky (2020-23), notching 7.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 21.7 minutes (.471 FG%, .695 FT%).<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7k\">The Hawks can sign another two-way player (NBA teams are allowed to carry three on their roster), but they would have to waive him first. Let&#8217;s see what the Hawks decide to do and hope he makes a full recovery from his injury. <\/p>\n<p>More Atlanta Hawks News: <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks forward Jacob Toppin, who was on a two-way contract with the team, was injured during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-336090","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\/336090","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=336090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}