Magic president provides updates on Jalen Suggs, Jonathan Isaac

Shortly after the Orlando Magic concluded their draft night Thursday, which included taking Paolo Banchero with the No. 1 pick, the attention started to shift towards their summer league plans.

They won’t include second-year guard Jalen Suggs.

Suggs, the No. 5 pick in last year’s draft, had surgery in late April to address a “slight” stress fracture in his right ankle.

Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman told the Orlando Sentinel Thursday evening that Suggs is no longer wearing a boot and is “doing well.”

Suggs told the Orlando Sentinel Friday he started doing on-court work again this past week.

“Jalen got his boot off and he’s ramping up his recovery”, Weltman added.

Weltman also provided an update on Jonathan Isaac, who had surgery after a “minor right hamstring injury” he suffered in mid-March while rehabilitating the torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that forced him to miss the previous two seasons.

“Jonathan’s still kind of catching up from his last procedure,” Weltman said. “He’s doing well. He’s doing half-court iso work. He’s progressing well. He’ll take the rest of the summer and we’re monitoring him closely.”

There’s optimism Isaac will return for the 2022-23 season in mid-October — nearly 26 months after tearing his ACL — but the Magic aren’t putting a timetable on his recovery. Orlando’s training camp will start on September 27.

“He’s got a lot of the summer left, so I don’t want to get into timetables,” Weltman said. “That always gets murky.”

This story will be updated.

This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Price at khprice@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @khobi_price.

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