{"id":431517,"date":"2025-12-07T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431517\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:26:15","slug":"magic-leading-scorer-franz-wagner-ruled-out-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431517\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic leading scorer Franz Wagner ruled out with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"74c23102-8c27-c8e6-ec1b-8a8fd4d42554\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"a585c182-99b5-3f9f-97ec-4382128e8e9f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4566434\/franz-wagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Franz Wagner<\/a> limped to the locker room and ruled out following an injury to his lower left leg against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"61719eb2-11c3-4e3d-90c3-0a1319fd850b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-knicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With 4:43 remaining in the first quarter, Wagner went up for an alley-oop on a fast break but was fouled by Knicks big man <a data-player-guid=\"6362e881-a42e-3a38-ab18-a21ad7e6a385\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4871141\/ariel-hukporti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ariel Hukporti<\/a>. When he landed, it appeared his left knee buckled, and he lay on the floor for a stretch of time before being assisted off the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic said Wagner will undergo an MRI upon returning to Orlando on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a season of starts and restarts for the promising Magic, who just got last season&#8217;s leading scorer, <a data-player-guid=\"b121848a-30d3-3fad-b6ab-74bf04005533\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432573\/paolo-banchero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paolo Banchero<\/a>, back from a left groin strain. Banchero missed 10 games during the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner was one of the Magic players who picked up the scoring slack. He&#8217;s been averaging 25.1 points with six rebounds and four assists during the last seven games and leads the Magic in scoring (23.4 ppg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Orlando Magic forward Franz Wagner limped to the locker room and ruled out following an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":431518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-431517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115679696317577790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}