Shams Charania said Suggs is anticipated to recover fully, but his rehab procedure will decide when he returns. This injury only serves to compound the Magic’s season-long string of misfortunes, which have caused their once-promising campaign to go south.

Banchero, Franz Wagner and Suggs have played just one game together since November. The Magic just do not have the firepower to make up for basically never having their three best scorers on the floor together. As it stands, Orlando is clinging to the East's No. 8 seed and leads No. 9 Atlanta by just half of a game in the loss column.

It's hard to have a year with worse injury luck than the Orlando Magic's 2025 season. Since October, the Magic have watched their two stars—forwards Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner—deal with oblique injuries,