{"id":333503,"date":"2025-12-07T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333503\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:42:07","slug":"franz-wagner-leaves-game-with-left-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333503\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz Wagner leaves game with left leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1944607\" class=\"wp-image-1944607 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Franz_Wagner_1920x1080-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1944607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franz Wagner scored 7 points on 3-for-4 shooting before exiting Sunday\u2019s game against the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Orlando star forward Franz Wagner left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/orl-vs-nyk-0022500357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic\u2019s game against the New York Knicks<\/a> with a lower leg injury during the first quarter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner was going up for a dunk on a lob pass from teammate Anthony Black when he was fouled hard by Knicks center Ariel Hukporti with 4:43 remaining in the period. Wagner appeared to land awkwardly on his left leg and immediately grabbed at the area below his knee before needing help going to the Magic locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Hukporti\u2019s foul was reviewed for a flagrant foul, but the call of common foul was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic ruled Wagner out for the remainder of the game and said in a statement he would be re-evaluated upon the team\u2019s return to Orlando. The Magic are slated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/mia-vs-orl-0022501201\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">host the Miami Heat<\/a> in the Emirates NBA Cup quarterfinals Tuesday at the Kia Center.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Franz Wagner suffered a lower left leg injury during the first quarter today at New York.  <\/p>\n<p>He is out for the remainder of the game and will be re-evaluated upon the team\u2019s return to Orlando. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JNjZg1CY9v\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JNjZg1CY9v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Orlando Magic (@OrlandoMagic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OrlandoMagic\/status\/1997724665788486098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wagner is the Magic\u2019s leading scorer and is tied for 20th in the NBA with 23.4 points per game. He had scored seven points on 3-for-4 shooting in seven minutes before leaving the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic just got Paolo Banchero back in their last game after he missed 10 in a row with a left groin injury.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franz Wagner scored 7 points on 3-for-4 shooting before exiting Sunday\u2019s game against the Knicks. NEW YORK (AP)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,19711,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-333503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-franz-wagner","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}