{"id":45754,"date":"2025-10-07T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/thunders-center-out-for-6-weeks-due-to-medical-procedure\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:20:26","slug":"thunders-center-out-for-6-weeks-due-to-medical-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/thunders-center-out-for-6-weeks-due-to-medical-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s center, out for 6 weeks due to medical procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nikola Topic to Undergo Medical Procedure; Delays Debut with the Thunder<\/h2>\n<p>Oklahoma City Thunder guard Nikola Topic has undergone a medical procedure, the team announced on Monday. He is expected to be reevaluated in four to six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The news represents a setback for the young player, who was looking to debut in the NBA with the champion team.<\/p>\n<p>The start of the regular season for the Thunder is scheduled for October 21st, with a matchup against the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Topic, 20 years old, was selected by OKC at the number 12 spot in the 2024 draft. The Serbian point guard, 6 feet 6 inches tall, missed his entire rookie season due to a torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p>In the Thunder&#8217;s first preseason game against the Hornets on Sunday, Topic played 31 minutes and recorded 10 points and seven assists.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Topic, the team will also lose another young prospect: rookie center Thomas Sorber, who will miss the season due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Topic to Undergo Medical Procedure; Delays Debut with the Thunder Oklahoma City Thunder guard Nikola Topic has undergone a medical procedure, the team announced on Monday. He is expected to be reevaluated in four to six weeks. The news represents a setback for the young player, who was looking to debut in the NBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[290,103,9520,1596],"class_list":{"0":"post-45754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nba","7":"tag-injury","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-nikola-topic","10":"tag-oklahoma-city"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}