{"id":703103,"date":"2026-04-07T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703103\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:50:42","slug":"okc-thunder-rookie-flashes-playmaking-prowess-in-win-against-jazz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703103\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC Thunder Rookie Flashes Playmaking Prowess in Win Against Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City secured another blowout victory on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After taking down the Los Angeles Lakers 139-96, OKC beat the Utah Jazz 146-111 on March 5 to improve to 62-16. The pair of wins not only puts Mark Daigneault&#8217;s team two victories away from securing the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, it has also given the end of the Thunder&#8217;s bench a few opportunities on the court.<\/p>\n<p>One of the players who has seen more minutes in the past two games is Nikola Topi\u0107, who was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/draft\/nba-rookies\/okc-thunder-recall-rookie-former-lottery-pick-nikola-topic-from-g-league-01kmxbzb6r14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recalled from the G League<\/a> after the OKC Blue&#8217;s season came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>In Topi\u0107&#8217;s first two NBA games since February, the rookie guard has showcased his skill set as a playmaker. While he hasn&#8217;t racked up any eye-popping statistical performances, the former lottery pick&#8217;s potential was on display in both contests.<\/p>\n<p>Against the Jazz, Topi\u0107 finished with 2 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists in eight minutes of action, continuing to find his footing at the NBA level. In OKC&#8217;s win against the Lakers, Topi\u0107 played 12 minutes, tallying 2 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City secured another blowout victory on Easter Sunday. After taking down the Los Angeles Lakers 139-96,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-703103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-oklahoma","11":"tag-oklahoma-city","12":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","13":"tag-oklahomacity","14":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","15":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116363042689483982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}