{"id":401313,"date":"2026-01-10T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401313\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:08:06","slug":"magics-moritz-wagner-to-return-from-acl-vs-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401313\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic&#8217;s Moritz Wagner to return from ACL vs. Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 10, 2026, 02:20 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"74c23102-8c27-c8e6-ec1b-8a8fd4d42554\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> forward\/center <a data-player-guid=\"77dabd3e-f335-70aa-b04b-e579fc0efec4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3150844\/moritz-wagner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moritz Wagner<\/a> is listed as available to make his season debut Sunday against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9461f397-7882-94c0-c18c-e89bdc9e570e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/no\/new-orleans-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a>, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner was a Sixth Man of the Year candidate last season before tearing his ACL in December. He was averaging a career-high 12.9 points per game while shooting 56.2% from the field before the injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic signed Wagner to a one-year, $5 million deal this summer to keep him in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>The brother of Magic star <a data-player-guid=\"a585c182-99b5-3f9f-97ec-4382128e8e9f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4566434\/franz-wagner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Franz Wagner<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"77dabd3e-f335-70aa-b04b-e579fc0efec4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3150844\/moritz-wagner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moritz Wagner<\/a> was selected with the 25th pick in the 2018 NBA draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>. After three stops in his first three seasons, he was waived toward the end of the 2020-21 season and picked up by Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 10, 2026, 02:20 PM ET Orlando Magic forward\/center Moritz Wagner is listed as available to make his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-401313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401313","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=401313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}