[Shams] An MRI today on Orlando Magic star Paolo Banchero confirmed a left groin strain, and he will miss Friday’s game against the Brooklyn Nets and be evaluated daily moving forward, sources tell ESPN.

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1. best case scenario if it’s day by day, plus nets stink so we can see some interesting lineups

2. straining my groin in solidarity ✊🏻

3. Sounds good but I don’t have faith in our training staff

4. probably going to be 2-3 weeks.

5. you can have my groin my sweet prince

6. I bet he misses two weeks if a mild strain

7. One month missing for sure

8. Day to day we will take it

9. Going to predict he misses like 6 games and comes back in 2 weeks for the cup matchup against Philly

10. Take the season off

11. pretty much best case scenario, awesome.

12. To quote the great Charlie Steiner, “He’s day to day, but then again, aren’t we all?”

13. Can’t play until its 100% healed. Very easy to reagrivate a groin injury as a basketball player. I think he’s out at least 4 weeks.

14. Day to day with a strain? That’s the best case right? What sucks is he was averaging 23.5 ppg and 9 Rebs on 47% shooting which are good numbers.

    Now, bc of that game where he got hurt, he’s averaging 21.7, 8.7 on 46% shooting.

    Either way, this is the best case scenario right? Other than them being like…”our bad, it was just a cramp.”

15. Could this be some kind of core issue related to the previous injury?.

    I know I’ve strained my groin which ultimately let to a battle with abdominal, hip flexor issues as well for a while

16. 🤬

17. Excited to see how they play without him. I’m in the minority & realize how the starters have one of the best +/- in the league, but I get irrationally frustrated watching him.

18. Was expecting bad news. I can live with this.

19. Daily is much better than weekly, monthly, or yearly

20. Start JI in his place, bring TDS off the bench. Id rather has TDS scoring from the bench so we have some punch.

21. Minor strain. He’ll be back in 1-2 weeks, maybe sooner.

22. I experienced a severe groin strain about 30 days ago from a tragic pickleball incident. Now I am in my late 60’s and things don’t heal as fast as they used to but I could not walk for 17 days and I am still sore (and limited) 30 days later and have PT sessions 3 times a week. It does appear Paolo has a mild strain given the timeline, I am guessing he will at least miss the Houston game and it’s very possible he can return sometime next week.

    I knew my deep dive into groin strains would come in handy someday. Get will Paolo!

23. NBA sub gonna be insufferable when we win without him

24. Daily > Weekly

    Shouldn’t need him against Brooklyn. Let Franz cook.

25. Yall about to find out this offense works so much better without this ball stopper

26. This news really strains my groin

27. Rest up my king!

28. Damn! I hope he’s ready by Sunday. I’m going to tag game against the Rockets. Heal that groin king 🤴