{"id":333033,"date":"2025-12-08T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333033\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:53:09","slug":"report-magics-franz-wagner-has-high-left-ankle-sprain-timeline-tbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333033\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Magic&#8217;s Franz Wagner has high left ankle sprain, timeline TBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Similar injuries typically carry a timeframe of two to four weeks, per Charania.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner, 24, 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 a common foul was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never want to see anybody go down, but that hurt my heart, watching him hit the floor,\u201d Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said post-game. \u201cNow I\u2019m just praying that everything is going to be OK with him, but we just don\u2019t like to see that happen to him, especially (Wagner), who does everything the right way at all times he\u2019s on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before exiting with the injury, Wagner had scored seven points on 3-of-4 shooting from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Through 24 games this season, the six-foot-10 German is averaging 22.7 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.2 steals in over 33 minutes of action per night.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando is set to host an NBA Cup quarterfinal against the Miami Heat on Tuesday night. You can watch as the Magic try to advance without their leading scorer on Sportsnet ONE or Sportsnet+, with tip-off scheduled for 6 p.m. ET \/ 3 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Similar injuries typically carry a timeframe of two to four weeks, per Charania. Wagner, 24, was going up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-333033","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\/333033","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=333033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}