Short­ly after the Orlan­do Mag­ic con­clud­ed their draft night Thurs­day, which includ­ed tak­ing Pao­lo Banchero with the No. 1 pick and Caleb Hous­tan at No. 32, 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.”

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

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

The Mag­ic will kick off sum­mer league in Las Vegas against the Hous­ton Rock­ets, who draft­ed Jabari Smith Jr. with the No. 3 pick. Sum­mer league runs from July 7–17.

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.”

Summer league roster

Coach Jamahl Mosley con­firmed Fri­day that Banchero and Hous­tan will both par­tic­i­pate in sum­mer league.

“I’ve been itch­ing to play ever since we lost the Final Four,” Banchero said. “I can’t wait.”

Jared Wil­son-Frame, Tom­my Kuhse and Emanuel Ter­ry are expect­ing to play for the Magic’s sum­mer league team, accord­ing to HoopsRumors.com.

Wil­son-Frame, a for­mer guard out of Pitts­burgh who went undraft­ed in 2019, aver­aged 17 points per game (36.8% on 3s), 5.3 assists and 4.6 rebounds with the Jazz’s G League affil­i­ate — the Salt Lake City Stars — in 2021–22.

Kuhse, a for­mer Saint Mary’s guard who went undraft­ed Thurs­day, aver­aged 12.2 points (49.4% from the field, 45% on 3s) 3.7 assists and 3.7 rebounds in his final sea­son with the Gaels.

Ter­ry, a 6‑foot‑9 big man, has played for the Mia­mi Heat and Phoenix Suns since going undraft­ed in 2018. He aver­aged 14.1 points (67% shoot­ing) and 8.6 rebounds in 29 games last sea­son with the Stock­ton Kings, the Sacra­men­to Kings’ G League affiliate.

It isn’t yet known if any­one from the Magic’s ros­ter or Orlando’s G League affil­i­ate, the Lake­land Mag­ic, will play in sum­mer league.

Mosley will run some prac­tices, but an assis­tant coach will han­dle the game-day responsibilities.

2022 Mag­ic Sum­mer League schedule:

July 7: vs. Hous­ton, 10 p.m. ET, (Sum­mer League Open­er); ESPN;

July 9: vs. Sacra­men­to, 4 p.m. ET, ESPN;

July 11: Okla­homa City, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN;

July 14: vs. New York, 7:30 p.m. ET, NBATV.

After every team plays four games from July 7–15, the two teams with the best records will play in the cham­pi­onship game on July 17. The oth­er 28 teams will play their fifth games on July 16 or July 17.

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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