{"id":417466,"date":"2026-04-30T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417466\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:28:11","slug":"magic-forward-franz-wagner-calf-out-against-pistons-in-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417466\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic forward Franz Wagner (calf) out against Pistons in Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2184827\" class=\"wp-image-2184827 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_FranzWagner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2184827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franz Wagner had 19 points in two-plus quarters before he departed late in the third quarter of Game 4 with the injury.<\/p>\n<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014\u00a0Orlando Magic\u00a0forward\u00a0Franz Wagner is out of the lineup with a strained right calf against the Detroit Pistons in Game 5 of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/east-first-round-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-round playoff series<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt changes things in a big way,\u201d Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner had 19 points in two-plus quarters before he departed late in the third quarter of Game 4 with the injury. Orlando went on to beat Detroit 94-88 on Monday night, putting the Eastern Conference\u2019s top-seeded team on the brink of elimination.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged nearly 17 points and 5.5 rebounds over the first four games of the series. The former Michigan star, who is from Germany, was limited to 34 games during the regular season due to injuries and averaged 20.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner was replaced in Game 4 by Jamal Cain, who had a powerful\u00a0dunk\u00a0over Jalen Duren early in the fourth quarter and a one-handed tip-in dunk that put the Magic ahead with 4:55 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to make sure we\u2019re at our best no matter who they put on the floor,\u201d Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franz Wagner had 19 points in two-plus quarters before he departed late in the third quarter of Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61697,131001,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-417466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-calf","tag-franz-wagner","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}