{"id":389978,"date":"2026-01-04T00:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389978\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:19:07","slug":"magics-jalen-suggs-out-indefinitely-with-mcl-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389978\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic’s Jalen Suggs out indefinitely with MCL contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic<\/a> guard Jalen Suggs<\/a> suffered a Grade 1 MCL contusion in his right knee during Friday’s loss to the Chicago Bulls<\/a>. His timeline for return will depend on how he responds to treatment, the Magic said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Suggs has struggled with injuries throughout his five-year NBA career and was just two games into a return from a left hip contusion that kept him out for seven games.<\/p>\n

Suggs is a crucial part of Orlando’s success with his two-way ability to score and defend while also being one of the team’s leaders. He played in just 35 games last season and underwent arthroscopic surgery in March to remove a cartilage fragment in his left knee.<\/p>\n

The Magic, who entered Saturday night’s games at 19-16 and eighth in the Eastern Conference, have also been without star forward Franz Wagner<\/a>. He’s dealing with a high ankle sprain he suffered on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Ohm Youngmisuk contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs suffered a Grade 1 MCL contusion in his right knee during Friday’s loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-389978","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-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389978","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=389978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}