{"id":70677,"date":"2025-12-04T06:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70677\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T06:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:19:43","slug":"mosley-provides-update-on-orlando-magic-star-paolo-banchero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70677\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosley provides update on Orlando Magic star Paolo Banchero"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Magic<\/a> are continuing to closely monitor the health and recovery of Paolo Banchero<\/a>, who was ruled out of his ninth consecutive contest ahead of Orlando<\/a> hosting the Bulls<\/a> at Kia Center on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Banchero, who suffered a left groin strain when he last played Nov. 12 at New York, is \u201cstill doing a lot of non-contact things,\u201d Magic coach Jamahl Mosley<\/a> said after morning shootaround at the AdventHealth Training Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just continue to see and monitor how he responds to each treatment each day,\u201d Mosley said.<\/p>\n

After facing Chicago<\/a>, the Magic have two more home games this week: Wednesday against the Spurs and Friday vs. the Heat.<\/p>\n

Typically, full contact is the precursor to an injured player\u2019s return to game action. Mosley was asked directly if contact work is something that could happen for Banchero while the team is home following a three-game trip last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, it goes off how he responds to what he\u2019s been doing for the past couple days,\u201d the Magic coach said. \u201cObviously, travel has been a part of things so it\u2019s hard to get a gauge on it, but us being back home this week is so important, just for that, to be able to be in this gym, this facility to get the proper recovery things he needs and we need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Banchero missed two-plus months last season when he suffered a torn right oblique, a more serious injury compared to the one he is dealing with currently.<\/p>\n

He previously only sat out 10 games as a rookie and just two as a sophomore before missing 36 last year.<\/p>\n

Banchero has kept a positive outlook on the situation and has taken advantage of the opportunity to watch games from a different perspective than usual, according to Mosley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s necessarily, \u2018Here we go again,\u2019 but it\u2019s more along the lines of just continuing to know that there is a process that he\u2019s following to get himself back on the court,\u201d Mosley said. \u201cHis spirits have been great. Him being on the bench, communicating with the guys, talking to the coaches about what he sees \u2026 The game slows down just that much more for him as well, as he\u2019s watching it as a coach for these moments. (He is) just continuing to put the work in to get back on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. said it\u00a0hasn\u2019t been hard keeping Banchero engaged with his teammates throughout the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one of those guys who wants to be involved, even though he\u2019s not playing,\u201d Carter said. \u201cHe\u2019s at every practice, he\u2019s talking, giving his 2 cents, been doing a great job during games when he\u2019s seeing different coverages, helping us being able to read the game a little bit more because he\u2019s usually the one out there with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entering Monday, the Magic were 6-2 without Banchero, winning five of their last six with second-year forward Tristan da Silva starting in his place.<\/p>\n

Banchero has worked to make sure it won\u2019t be a difficult transition when he does return.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he comes back, he wants to just continue to help this team win,\u201d Carter said. \u201cHe\u2019s just trying to make sure we\u2019re all staying on the straightened arrow, just continuing to win games so when he gets back, it\u2019s an easy way for him to just come in and join the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason Beede can be reached at jbeede@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Up next \u2026<\/p>\n

Magic vs. San Antonio<\/p>\n

When: 7, Wednesday, Kia Center<\/p>\n

TV: FanDuel Sports Network Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Magic are continuing to closely monitor the health and recovery of Paolo Banchero, who was ruled out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,2295,139,141,1239,140,109,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-70677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-social","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70677","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=70677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}