ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Orlando Magic waived forward\/center Jonathan Isaac on Saturday, ending the former first-round pick\u2019s injury-shortened time with the team, President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman announced.<\/p>\n
The Magic took Isaac with the No. 6 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft. After playing in 75 games in 2018-19 in a promising second season, the 6-foot-10 forward tore his left anterior cruciate ligament in August 2020 during the NBA\u2019s restart and missed the next two seasons while recovering from knee surgery.<\/p>\n
Isaac, who was the longest-tenured player on Orlando’s roster, played in 52 games in 2025-26, averaging 2.6 points and 2.5 rebounds in 10 minutes per game. He didn\u2019t appear in Orlando\u2019s first-round playoff series against the Detroit Pistons because of a left knee strain.<\/p>\n
Isaac appeared in 328 career games for the Magic, averaging 6.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks. He is sixth on Orlando\u2019s career blocked shots list with 391.<\/p>\n
He was scheduled to make $14.5 million this season, but $6.5 million was not guaranteed if he was waived by June 28. He still is owed $8 million this season, but the salary that was not guaranteed will put Orlando $9.5 million over the luxury tax, a drop of $6.5 million.<\/p>\n
The Magic chose not to stretch and waive the remaining money on Isaac’s deal, so if he is not picked up by another team, he could re-sign with Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Orlando Magic waived forward\/center Jonathan Isaac on Saturday, ending the former first-round pick\u2019s injury-shortened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1242,1238,274,2205,28,1236,115,139,141,1239,140,1240,1241,110,1237,135,278],"class_list":["post-323393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-florida-sports","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-professional-basketball","tag-spectrum-sports-staff","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323393","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=323393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}