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Moritz Wagner Rumors
Moritz Wagner will have a no-trade clause
Michael Scotto: Update: Moritz Wagner will have a no-trade clause in his one-year, $5 million deal with the Orlando Magic, league sources told @hoopshype.
Magic, Moritz Wagner agree to one-year, $5 million deal
Shams Charania: Free agent forward/center Moritz Wagner has agreed to a one-year, $5 million deal to return to the Orlando Magic, sources tell ESPN. Wagner's agent, Jason Glushon, reached the new contract with Magic executives on Friday.
Shams Charania: Wagner, who sustained ACL tear in December, was averaging a career high 12.9 points and shooting a career-best 36% from 3 before injury. Through his 30 games, Wagner had emerged as a Sixth Man of the Year candidate and led NBA in PPG among players to average under 20 minutes.
Moritz Wagner, Caleb Houstan hit free agency after Magic decline team options
Shams Charania: The Orlando Magic are declining team options on Moe Wagner ($11 million) and Caleb Houstan ($2.1 million), sources tell ESPN. The Magic retain both players' Bird Rights, meaning Orlando could still re-sign them.
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Jason Beede: In non-trade talk, #Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman said Jalen Suggs and Moe Wagner are “progressing right on time and they’re both doing really well.” “You guys know what kind of relentless workers they are,” Weltman said when asked by @philiprr_OMD. pic.x.com/Z3tHDaKdYb
As a franchise, Alba Berlin does not have the same global footprint as LeBron, whose salary with the Lakers this season ($50 million) is three times the size of Alba’s team budget for the 2024-25 season. But it is an enormously popular team in the city, with alums like current Orlando Magic standouts Franz and Moe Wagner.
“My brother was just in PE class basically, and they said you’re probably going to be tall, why don’t you come the one time (to an Alba youth league game),” said Franz Wagner, the Orlando star whose brother Moe also plays for the Magic. Franz is four years younger than his brother and started playing for Alba when he was 7. “I went to (Moe’s) game, so that’s how I started,” Wagner said. “We were soccer players.”
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Cameron Tabatabaie: Magic announce forward Mo Wagner underwent successful ACL surgery on Jan 8, and will indeed be sidelined for the remainder of the season pic.x.com/C9bhq3cziK
Jason Beede: Update: #Magic center Moe Wagner underwent successful surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee on Wednesday, Jan. 8, @orlandosports has learned. As previously reported, he will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 regular season.
Before Moritz Wagner made his way over from the other side of the court to where reporters were gathered inside the AdventHealth Training Center on Monday, Jonathan Isaac helped the Magic center put a compression sock on his left leg. Less than 24 hours earlier, Wagner received confirmation by way of an MRI on Sunday he suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee the night prior against Miami. If there’s anyone in the Orlando organization who knows what Wagner is about to go through between surgery and months of rehab, it’s Isaac. The Magic forward was off the court for nearly three years due to multiple lower leg injuries but still worked his way back to becoming one of the league’s top defenders.
Isaac’s recovery gives hope to Wagner knowing he too can return in top shape for next season. “This is just another chance to prove how much you love this game,” Wagner said at Monday’s shootaround ahead of Orlando’s matchup with Boston. “That’s how I see it. That’s why we do it — we want to play. Having others prove it, seeing how they proved it and … I mean, Jonathan Isaac was out for three years. The dude was in here twice a day for three years [with] the same energy. “I have no doubt I can do it,” he added. “Right now for me, it’s just honestly a sadness that you’re sad about not being able to play, not being able to do what you want to do. But I’ll get over that.”
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