{"id":191647,"date":"2025-10-31T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=191647"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:40:31","slug":"the-whole-of-oklahoma-stands-by-topic-there-is-no-20-year-old-with-more-maturity-discipline-and-toughness-than-him-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/the-whole-of-oklahoma-stands-by-topic-there-is-no-20-year-old-with-more-maturity-discipline-and-toughness-than-him-video\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WHOLE OF OKLAHOMA STANDS BY TOPI\u0106: &#8220;There Is No 20-Year-Old with More Maturity, Discipline, and Toughness Than Him!&#8221; (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oklahoma recorded its sixth consecutive victory since the start of the season, this time defeating Washington 127:108. However, before and after the game, there was much more talk about Nikola Topi\u0107 than about basketball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current champions, led by NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, achieved another victory, with him finishing the game with 31 points, seven assists, and three rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even before the game, Mark Daigneault showed how proud he is of Topi\u0107 and that not everyone could do what he is doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing well, considering the circumstances, which is not surprising. Sam (Presti) mentioned it today, but there&#8217;s no 20-year-old better equipped with the maturity, discipline, and toughness to handle a situation like this than him. Our locker room &#8211; I don&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s a locker room more prepared to encourage and support someone through something like this than ours. We are with him. He knows that. He is here, he has been with us, and he will continue to be with us. We will all do our best. But, we are very confident in him as a person, in the prognosis, and in the environment we have around him as we go through this together,&#8221; Daigneault said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mark Daigneault on Nikola Topi\u0107\u2019s testicular cancer diagnosis: \u201cHe\u2019s doing great given the circumstances, which is unsurprising. <br><br>Sam mentioned it today but there\u2019s no one more equipped with the maturity and discipline, and toughness to handle a situation like this than he is\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M4u12qVfjC\">pic.twitter.com\/M4u12qVfjC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Josue Pav\u00f3n (@Joe_Sway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joe_Sway\/status\/1984025986308980875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone in the locker room emphasized without question that this is for Nikola and that they will be there for him for whatever he needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah Hartenstein once again highlighted how much the team is supporting the young Serbian player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The most important thing is to be supportive. He has been with us for the last two years and is a great part of our team. The most important thing for us is to rally around him. That&#8217;s what makes our team special,&#8221; Hartenstein pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah Joe reiterated the messages of support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Just being there for him, checking in on him. He&#8217;s going through something serious, but as long as he can feel our support, he will know that he is not alone in this. We want to offer him warmth and strength through it all,&#8221; Joe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/thank-you-trump-for-correcting-the-injustice-milorad-dodik-spoke-out-about-the-lifting-of-american-sanctions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">\u201cTHANK YOU TRUMP FOR CORRECTING THE INJUSTICE\u201d: Milorad Dodik spoke out about the lifting of American sanctions!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/they-are-no-longer-on-the-black-list-the-usa-lifted-sanctions-on-milorad-dodik-and-zeljka-cvijanovic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">THEY ARE NO LONGER ON THE BLACK LIST: The USA lifted sanctions on Milorad Dodik and \u017deljka Cvijanovi\u0107!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/turkish-journalist-sharply-responded-to-spajic-you-accepted-criminals-and-now-you-are-shifting-the-blame-to-turkey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TURKISH JOURNALIST SHARPLY RESPONDED TO SPAJI\u0106: \u201cYou accepted criminals, and now you are shifting the blame to Turkey!\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/roads-of-serbia-deny-themselves-the-roads-to-novi-sad-will-not-be-closed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">\u201cROADS OF SERBIA\u201d DENY THEMSELVES: The roads to Novi Sad will not be closed!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/great-recognition-for-a-serbian-from-chicago-doctor-knezevic-included-among-the-top-2-percent-of-scientists-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">GREAT RECOGNITION FOR A SERBIAN FROM CHICAGO: Doctor Kne\u017eevi\u0107 included among the top 2 percent of scientists in the world!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/nova.rs\/sport\/kosarka\/nikola-topic-rak-testisa-oklahoma-podrska-trener\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nova.rs<\/a>; <strong>Foto<\/strong>: Printscreen YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma recorded its sixth consecutive victory since the start of the season, this time defeating Washington 127:108. However, before and after the game, there was much more talk about Nikola Topi\u0107 than about basketball. The current champions, led by NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, achieved another victory, with him finishing the game with 31 points, seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":189464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71,1491,23,91,113,15],"class_list":["post-191647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-amerika","tag-nikola-topic","tag-sad","tag-sport","tag-srbija","tag-video","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191662,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191647\/revisions\/191662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}