{"id":279431,"date":"2025-11-13T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279431\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:08:12","slug":"magics-paolo-banchero-exits-vs-knicks-with-groin-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279431\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic&#8217;s Paolo Banchero exits vs. Knicks with groin strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already dealing with a tough start to the season, the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"orlando-magic\" data-league=\"nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/orlando-magic\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Orlando Magic<\/a> could be without their all-star for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/paolo-banchero\/49d8f5ef-2867-4597-a3ab-5ffc5e651258\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"49d8f5ef-2867-4597-a3ab-5ffc5e651258\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Paolo Banchero<\/a> exited Wednesday&#8217;s game against the New York Knicks after suffering a left groin strain, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OrlandoMagic\/status\/1988783273716371586?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Banchero suffered the injury in the second quarter. It&#8217;s unclear how he was hurt, but he was taken out of the game at the 6:40 mark of the frame and was deemed questionable to return by the team soon after. He was ruled out at the start of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Up to that point in the game, Banchero had four points, four rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block in 12 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Banchero, who turned 23 on Wednesday, has taken a slight step back offensively in his fourth season, averaging 23.3 points, 9.1 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 34.6 minutes a night. He scored 25.9 a night last year but missed a chunk of the campaign with an oblique injury. <\/p>\n<p>The Magic, who many expected to be a strong team in the East, have been sluggish out of the gates with a 4-6 record heading into Wednesday&#8217;s game. They have the 19th-ranked offence and the 14th-ranked defence and sit 10th in the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Already dealing with a tough start to the season, the Orlando Magic could be without their all-star for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-279431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}