Nikola Topic was the 12th overall pick of the NBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm. However, he was forced to the sidelines for the entire 2024-25 season, after having surgery to repair a torn ACL due to an injury in late May 2024, at the bottom end of his spell with Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet.

“It would probably be even better just if I played, but it was an amazing experience,” he said in preseason media day on Monday, talking about being stuck on the injury list throughout the championship run of the Oklahoma City Thunder .

Medically cleared, the 20-year-old Serbian point guard returned to action in the NBA 2K26 Summer League .

“I did a lot of good things,” Topic painted the picture of a complicated offseason resurgence, “Just to play the game that I love, it was pretty ama

See Full Page