{"id":620052,"date":"2026-05-02T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:57:11","slug":"franz-wagner-orlando-magic-star-ruled-out-for-game-7-vs-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620052\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz Wagner, Orlando Magic star, ruled out for Game 7 vs Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Pistons<\/a>‘ path to prevailing in Game 7 of their first-round NBA playoff series got a little easier on Saturday, May 2, when Orlando Magic<\/a> star Franz Wagner<\/a> was ruled out for Sunday’s game.<\/p>\n

Wagner (right calf strain) was listed as out on the availability report Saturday, after missing Game 5 on Wednesday and Game 6 on Friday. The Pistons won both games to force the series decider on Sunday (3:30 p.m., ABC).<\/p>\n

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Detroit Pistons guard Cabe Cunningham is closely defended by Franz Wagner, forward for the Orlando Magic, during the first half of Game 3 of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs at the Kia Center on April 25, 2026 in Orlando.<\/p>\n

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Wagner, who spent two years in college at Michigan, exited Game 4 in Orlando on Monday late in the third quarter with 19 points. The forward has been key to the Magic’s success this season, and they missed his presence in their most recent losses.<\/p>\n

This story will be updated.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Franz Wagner injury update: Magic star ruled out for Game 7 Sunday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Pistons‘ path to prevailing in Game 7 of their first-round NBA playoff series got a little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[268785,4576,56239,355,11950,185437,99],"class_list":["post-620052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-availability-report","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-franz-wagner","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-paul-reed","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}