Thunder officially announced! Season reimbursement! The worst rookie in 2025 is born

September 17th, the Oklahoma City Thunder officially announced that the team's 15th overall pick in the first round of this year, Thomas Sauber successfully underwent a torn repair of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee.

It is reported that Thomas Sauber is expected to recover completely and be able to catch up with the 2026-27 season. In this way, this means that the 2025-26 rookie season of the No. 15 pick in the first round will be completely reimbursed in advance!

It is reported that Thomas Sauber unfortunately suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee during an offseason training earlier this month. The Thunder then officially announced that Thomas Sauber was reimbursed in advance for the 2025-26 season!

At this year's NBA Draft, Thomas Sauber, who is 19 years old, is 2.08 meters tall, weighs 113 kilograms, has a wingspan of 2.29 meters, and is 2.77 meters tall, and is a center/power forward on the field. He was selected by the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder with the 15th pick in the first round.

There is no doubt that Thomas Sauber is a super lucky person! Because he can join the defending champion team just after entering the NBA, and he has a good chance to win the O'Brien Cup that all NBA players have always dreamed of in his first year in the league. After all, the Oklahoma City Thunder is the hottest super hot team in the league right now, and they are expected to win the championship again next season!

In order to integrate into the Thunder faster and better in the new season, the young and ambitious Thomas Sauber seized the gap in the offseason to train hard and strive to show his best self. But fate played a big joke on him in an untimely manner! When his NBA career had not officially started, he suddenly suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee, which directly led to the rookie's early reimbursement of the season. There is no doubt that Thomas Sauber has become the one who has suffered the worst of all drafts in 2025!

It's really weird to say that it's a rookie's early reimbursement for the first round pick is almost a "tradition" of the Oklahoma City Thunder in recent years! Because Thomas Sauber is the third first-round pick to be reimbursed in advance in the past four years in the Thunder. Next, let’s review who are the Thunder’s first-round picks who have been reimbursed in advance in the past four years of rookie seasons?

1. Chet Homgren, the second-place pick in the 2022 draft, suffered an injury to the right foot tarsalis joint in a half-professional game in August 2022, resulting in early reimbursement of the 2022-23 rookie season;

2. Nikola Topic, the 12th pick in the first round of 2024, announced early reimbursement of the 2024-25 rookie season due to a torn ACL;

3. Thomas Sauber, the 15th pick in the first round of 2025, suffered a torn ACL in September, directly resulting in early reimbursement of the 2025-26 rookie season.

It is no exaggeration to say that it has become a very terrible thing to choose a rookie in the NBA in the first round by the Oklahoma City Thunder, because the probability of the Thunder's first-round pick in recent years is too high to be reimbursed in advance for the season! The second-place winner Chet Homgren, the second-year second-year pick, Nikola Topic, the 12th pick in the first round of last year, and Thomas Sauber, the 15th pick in the first round of this year, were all finally suffered early reimbursement of the rookie season without exception. It makes people think it is terrifying to think about it!

Thomas Sauber's unfortunate experience really makes people feel sad and even sad for him, because what he suffered was a major injury that endangered his career! Let us pray for Thomas Sauber together, and hope that this 2025 first round No. 15 will recover as soon as possible and return to the arena! Come on, Thomas Sauber!