Originally posted on Hoops Rumors | By Alex Kirschenbaum | Last updated 1/6/21
Recently-extended Magic starting point guard Markelle Fultz is set to miss the rest of the 2020-21 season after tearing the ACL in his left knee, Roy Parry of the Orlando Sentinel tweets. Fultz suffered the injury during the first quarter of tonight’s 105-96 defeat of the Cavaliers. Fultz’s three-year, $50M contract extension will kick in during the 2021-22 season.
This is quite a blow for the Magic. Fultz will join the club’s fellow injured 2017 lottery draftee Jonathan Isaac on the sidelines for the duration of the 2020-21 season. Isaac was tendered an $80M extension of his own ahead of the season, all of which he is set to miss with his own torn left ACL, which he incurred during the 2020 NBA playoffs this past August.