{"id":322409,"date":"2026-06-28T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322409\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:17:08","slug":"magic-waive-jonathan-isaac-former-sixth-overall-pick-in-2017-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322409\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic waive Jonathan Isaac, former sixth-overall pick in 2017 draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/orlando-magic\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"orlando-magic\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a> waived <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/jonathan-isaac\/776679a3-c1d8-4463-99b1-61024008a3ed\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"776679a3-c1d8-4463-99b1-61024008a3ed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Isaac<\/a> on Saturday, ending the former first-round pick&#8217;s injury-shortened time with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic took Isaac with the No. 6 pick in the 2017 draft. After playing in 75 games in 2018-19 in a promising second season, the six-foot-10 forward tore his left ACL in August 2020 during the NBA&#8217;s restart and missed the next two seasons while recovering from surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac played in 52 games this season, averaging 2.6 points and 2.5 rebounds in 10 minutes per game. He didn&#8217;t appear in Orlando&#8217;s first-round playoff series against Detroit because of a left knee strain.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac appeared in 328 games for the Magic, averaging 6.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks. He is sixth on Orlando&#8217;s career blocked shots list with 391.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Orlando Magic waived Jonathan Isaac on Saturday, ending the former first-round pick&#8217;s injury-shortened time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-322409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}