{"id":932222,"date":"2026-07-13T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/932222\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:21:10","slug":"injured-orlando-magic-rookie-izaiyah-nelson-to-undergo-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/932222\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Orlando Magic rookie Izaiyah Nelson to undergo surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/07\/12\/orlando-magic-portland-trail-blazers-las-vegas-summer-league-game-recap-cox-pavilion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic<\/a> rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/07\/12\/orlando-magic-portland-trail-blazers-las-vegas-summer-league-game-recap-cox-pavilion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Izaiyah Nelson<\/a> suffered a fracture in his left ankle during the first half of Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/07\/12\/orlando-magic-portland-trail-blazers-las-vegas-summer-league-game-recap-cox-pavilion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Summer League<\/a> game against the Trail Blazers, the team announced Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson, the No. 51 pick in June\u2019s NBA draft, was initially diagnosed with a left ankle sprain, but additional imaging done Sunday revealed the fracture.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson will undergo surgery and is expected to return to basketball activities in 3-4 months, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>The injury occurred around the seven-minute mark of the second quarter when Nelson came flying in for a block but landed awkwardly on teammate TyTy Washington Jr., who was trying to take a charge on a layup attempt from Portland\u2019s Quincy Olivari.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Jason Beede can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/07\/13\/orlando-magic-izaiyah-nelson-injury-update-nba-dj-bakker-usf-bulls-south-florida-las-vegas-summer-league-unlv\/mailto:jbeede@orlandosentinel.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jbeede@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Magic rookie Izaiyah Nelson suffered a fracture in his left ankle during the first half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":932223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[1370,1260,3121,3161,257586,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-932222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-social","tag-social-sports","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932222","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=932222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}