Suggs Gets a Diagnosis, and It's Two More Weeks of Waiting

The bone bruise in Jalen Suggs' right knee is not the worst-case scenario Orlando feared when he was helped off the floor at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, but it is not nothing, either. He'll be re-evaluated in two weeks, which means the Magic are carrying this uncertainty into early November at minimum.

That lands on top of Paolo Banchero's high ankle sprain, which already has him out multiple weeks with a 4-to-6 week timetable floating around. So the team's top forward and its starting guard are both watching from the sideline before the calendar turns. Anthony Black moves up the guard rotation by default, and the forward group — Tristan da Silva and Franz Wagner behind Banchero — gets tested earlier than anyone planned.

The depth chart can absorb one of these. Two at once is a different conversation.