Good and bad luck depend on each other, Thunder Topic reimbursed the season but won the championship, predicted one year ago to rank in the top five

As the highest honor in the league every year, the NBA championship is the ultimate lifelong dream of the players. Even superstars in the league may be difficult to get in their lifetime. Players such as James Harden, Westbrook, Chris Paul, etc. who are currently in the league, who are now at the end of their careers, are all top 10 players in the league at their peak. They still have no championship honors until now.

However, in this season's championship team, there are two players who are lucky enough, namely the team's new players Ajay Mitchell and Nikola Topic selected in 24 years. Especially Topic, when he won the championship honor, he was only 19 years old and 316 days old, becoming the third youngest player in the league to win the championship.

Speaking of Topic, he is indeed lucky enough to win this championship trophy. As one of the most talented backcourt stars among the 24 players, since the release of last year's draft simulation draft list, this 1.98-meter-high point guard has been ranked among the top five on the list. However, in mid-May last year, when he represented the team in the European League final, he accidentally injured his knee without contact. In the match in January of the same year, he had been injured in the same position once, which allowed Topic to recuperate for 4 months.

Because of this injury, Topic had to undergo surgery, which required about a year of recovery. This indicates that it takes a year to wait for whoever chooses him. Many teams in the league chose to give up Topic, and because the Thunder team's lineup was relatively fixed, they chose to win the best talented player at the time at the 12th pick, which made the rookie lucky to win the championship honor without playing in a single game this season. If Topic participates in the draft when he is completely healthy, the Rockets, the third pick and the fourth pick and the Spurs will probably win it.

As a backcourt player with a height of 1.98 meters and an wingspan of 2.13 meters, Topic is known as the most promising backcourt star in Europe after Doncic. Compared to Doncic, Topic is more like a pure point guard. Although he was only 18 years old before the draft, he averaged 18.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game in the ABA league, which is different from the traditional European point guards who need to use pick-and-roll to launch an offense. Topic is often able to use his own rhythm changes and fake moves to pass the ball to his open teammates after attracting his opponent to defend. Although he is young, his playing style is very sophisticated and often has incredible assists. He is called the European "magic".

In the league, two other players who won the championship honors younger than Topic. One was the second-tier Dako Milicic in 2003. He was only 18 years and 361 days when he won the championship. He was the only player in the league who won the championship when he was under 19 years old. The other is Kumingga, the 7th pick in the first round of 2021. He was 19 years and 253 days when he won the championship.

In 2003, when the Pistons won Milicic from Serbia with the second pick, everyone was shocked because behind them were Anthony, who had just led Syracuse to win the NCAA championship, and "The Flash" Wade and Chris Bosh. Milicic averaged only 6 points and 4.2 rebounds in his NBA career. All people can remember are synonyms such as "the second-tier second-tier" and "the champion gangster".

In 21, the Warriors chose Kumingga, who was ignited by the Development League with the seventh pick in the first round. In the first year of his career, Curry, Thompson and Green caught up with the last year of four championships in 8 years with the Warriors and were lucky to win the championship. However, Kumingga's growth in the Warriors was not smooth. Although he won the "Prince Battle" with Wiseman, coach Cole always believed that Kumingga had a big problem in tactical execution, so that Kumingga did not enter the rotation in the early stage of this year's playoffs.

Compared with the first two young players who won the championship, Topic's NBA journey has just begun, and in the new young army of the Thunder, only by showing convincing strength can he truly gain a foothold. Otherwise, Topic might become the next Milicic. What do you think Topic can develop to the future? Welcome to leave a message for discussion!