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WASHINGTON – Georgetown University men's basketball's Thomas Sorber was selected by the NBA Champions Oklahoma City Thunder with the No. 15 pick in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft on Wednesday evening at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Sorber becomes the first Hoya draft selection since 2013 when Otto Porter Jr. was selected by the Washington Wizards with the third overall pick.
ON THE RECORD
"This is everything I've ever dreamed of. You grow up hoping for this moment and wanting it so bad, and to get picked by Oklahoma City after they were so great to me ahead of the draft is really cool. Everything from this past year has been amazing. This is truly the dream, man." - Thomas Sorber
THOMAS SORBER | No. 15 PICK / FIRST ROUND | OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER | TRENTON, N.J.
Thomas Sorber appeared in 24 games during the regular season, starting 23.
Sorber finished the season as Georgetown's second-leading scorer, averaging 14.5 ppg. He was going back and forth with leading scorer Micah Peavy before he was sidelined with an injury in mid-February.
Sorber grabbed a squad-best 8.5 rpg, good enough for second in the BIG EAST Conference.
The New Jersey native chipped in a squad-best 2.0 bpg and 2.4 apg while shooting 53.2% (133-250).
For the season, he tallied eight double-doubles and scored in double figures 18 times.
The frosh earned BIG EAST Freshman of the Week honors seven times on the year before undergoing surgery in February.
He was a unanimous selection to the BIG EAST All-Freshman Team and named to the All-BIG EAST Third Team.
The product out of Trenton, New Jersey was named to the NABC All-Mid Atlantic First Team
Sorber becomes the 14th Hoya to be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft and the first since Porter Jr.
OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER
The Oklahoma City Thunder is coming off its first NBA Championship, defeating the Indiana Pacers 4-3 following a historic season that saw the team win a franchise-record 68 games.
Sorber joins Hoya alum Jeff Green (C'12) as the only Hoyas with an affiliation to the Thunder. After being selected No. 5 in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft by the Seattle Supersonics, the team relocated to Oklahoma City prior to the 2008 season where Green continued with the franchise from 2008-11. Green went on to win an NBA Championship in 2023 with the Denver Nuggets. He joined Alonzo Mourning (Miami Heat, 2006) and Otto Porter Jr. (Golden State Warriors, 2022) as the trio of Hoyas to have won an NBA title.