{"id":712753,"date":"2026-04-17T22:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:30:31","slug":"magic-earn-brutal-injury-update-ahead-of-hornets-play-in-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712753\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic earn brutal injury update ahead of Hornets Play-In game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Isaac (left knee sprain) will remain unavailable for Orlando ahead of win-or-go-home Play-In bout vs. Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Magic are set to face a do-or-die situation heading to Friday&#8217;s Play-In Tournament game against the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>As such, they will attempt to save their season and secure the final spot of the Eastern Conference Playoffs without Jonathan Isaac again.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando officially <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UnderdogNBA\/status\/2045257384533045473?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that Isaac will not play due to his left knee sprain.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran big man hasn&#8217;t played any game since March 12, and this certainly served as a brutal blow for the Magic.<\/p>\n<p>Still, despite Isaac&#8217;s absence, the Magic remain fortunate to have a good frontcourt depth from Paolo Banchero, Wendell Carter Jr. and Goga Bitadze.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac hasn&#8217;t relatively played that much this 2025-26 season, but he embraced being a key locker room presence for Orlando. In 51 appearances, he averaged 2.6 points and 2.5 rebounds in 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_1\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Thank you for being with us! Subscribe to BN+ and browse ad-free.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Isaac (left knee sprain) will remain unavailable for Orlando ahead of win-or-go-home Play-In bout vs. Charlotte. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,48,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":{"0":"post-712753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-magic","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-orlando","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlandomagic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116422419889532876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}