{"id":483106,"date":"2026-02-10T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=483106"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:37:38","slug":"thunder-prospect-nikola-topic-makes-g-league-debut-after-knee-injury-and-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thunder-prospect-nikola-topic-makes-g-league-debut-after-knee-injury-and-cancer-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder prospect Nikola Topic makes G League debut after knee injury and cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1585\" data-end=\"1862\">Nikola Topic made his NBA G League debut with the <strong data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1657\">Oklahoma City Blue<\/strong>, returning after a major knee injury and chemotherapy following a testicular cancer diagnosis. He recorded 7 points and 7 assists in 16 minutes in a 137-135 overtime win over the <strong data-start=\"1837\" data-end=\"1861\">Sioux Falls Skyforce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1864\" data-end=\"2117\">Ahead of the Thunder\u2019s matchup in Los Angeles, head coach Mark Daigneault celebrated the milestone: \u201cWe\u2019re all just collectively thrilled that he\u2019s back playing basketball\u201d. He added it was \u201cso good for him mentally to get his feet back underneath him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2119\" data-end=\"2454\">Drafted 12th overall in 2024 despite tearing a knee ligament two months earlier, Topic has played sparingly over the past two years, including Summer League and preseason before his diagnosis. Daigneault called it a \u201cGreat accomplishment\u201d and \u201can unbelievable accomplishment,\u201d praising Topic\u2019s \u201cmental toughness, maturity, resilience\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">INCREDIBLE: Nikola Topic made his return for the OKC Blue tonight for the first time since beating cancer. \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>\u200bHe recorded an assist immediately after checking in.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TGHN8fTXhQ\">pic.twitter.com\/TGHN8fTXhQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Base (@TheNBABase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBABase\/status\/2021034426445201807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic posts 7 points and 7 assists in 16 minutes as Oklahoma City Blue beat Sioux Falls Skyforce 137-135 in OT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":483105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[395,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-483106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-g-league","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-10-alle-08.34.50.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483106"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=483106"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=483106"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=483106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}