{"id":403050,"date":"2026-01-11T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403050\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:19:07","slug":"magics-moritz-wagner-available-for-season-debut-vs-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403050\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic&#8217;s Moritz Wagner available for season debut vs. Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/moritz-wagner\/f1f258c2-9bcf-4e33-ba9e-563e95084893\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moritz Wagner<\/a> will be available for his season debut on Sunday against the New Orleans Pelicans after missing most of last season and the start of this campaign due to a torn left ACL, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Magic_PR\/status\/2010379852126581062?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before suffering his injury, Wagner was a Sixth Man of the Year candidate in 2024-25. He averaged 12.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.4 assists on 56.2 per cent shooting through the first 30 games of last season. <\/p>\n<p>The German has been with the Magic since 2020-21, averaging 10.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists across 241 games in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic sit seventh in the East with a 21-18 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre Moritz Wagner will be available for his season debut on Sunday against the New Orleans Pelicans after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-403050","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\/403050","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=403050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}