Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti announced that rookie guard Nikola Topic has been diagnosed with testicular cancer.
"I want to give a health update on Nikola Topic," Presti began. "I think as everybody is aware. He had a testicular procedure at the very beginning of training camp. That procedure was necessary and done at M.D. Anderson in Houston to determine if Nikola was dealing with a case of testicular cancer. The procedure was necessary in order to biopsy, and the results of the biopsy have been returned. He's dealing with a case of testicular cancer. He has a tremendous group of oncologists both at OU and at M.D. Anderson and they are extremely positive about his outlook in dealing with this situation...the treatment option for him right now as recommended by the oncologists is chemotherapy. Top didn't want to make this information public until he had begun the actual treatments, which he has recently."
