Orlando Magic’s Jonathan Isaac left Sunday’s game against Sacramento Kings after suffering an apparent non-contact knee injury. The club announced that their forward will be evaluated in 8-10 weeks.
Speaking at a press conference, Magic head coach Steve Clifford, said Isaac will be out indefinitely and his return to the court will depend on how he responds to treatment.
“I’m hopeful. It looked bad, obviously, but until you hear anything I’m just hopeful, that’s all. It’s all conjecture and you just have to wait and find out,” Clifford said.
The blow is hard for Isaac, who made his return on the floors in this restart of the championship, after eight months of absence due to a hyper-extension suffered in the same knee on January 1 in Washington.
He has missed 31 matches this season because of the injury. But it was not really for this return to the game that he was talked about on Friday, but for having remained standing when the Star Spangled Banner sounded, while all the other players in the match against Brooklyn had kneeled on the ground to protest racial injustice in the United States.
“I absolutely support Black Lives Matter, I just felt that getting down on my knees or wearing a t-shirt with his image was not essential to support” this movement. Everyone is made in the image of God and we are all a long way from living up to the glory of God” Isaac said.
“We do things we shouldn’t do and say things we shouldn’t say we don’t like people we shouldn’t hate when you look around racism is not the only thing that torments our society, which torments our nation, which torments our world. I have the feeling that our answer to this is the Gospel.” Isaac added.
Isaac has the third highest Player Efficiency Rating (PER) on the Magic (17.2) and is tied with Anthony Davis for second in the league in blocks per game.
