Injured again! The genius No. 6 show fell! The first glass man in the NBA was born
There's a player who, every time you see the news about him, it's either an injury or he's coming back from injury. In his seven-year NBA career, he only played 162 regular season games, and guess who this is? He is Isaac! Today, the Magic's nine-game winning streak was ended by the Nets, and the Magic are still in second place in the East with 14 wins and 6 losses, but Isaac suffered a sprained right ankle and his return date is undecided.
Back on November 7, Isaac was out with a left hamstring injury, on November 27 and November 30, Isaac missed two consecutive games with left ankle soreness and left knee soreness, and on December 2, Isaac returned to play seven minutes before leaving the game with a sprained right ankle. From hamstrings to ankles to knees, Isaac's legs were already scarred.
At present, Isaac's status is that his return date is undecided, and he does not know when he will return. Isaac played in 15 games this season, averaging 13.4 minutes per game, 6.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, 0.9 steals and 1.3 blocks while shooting 43.8%, 22.9% and 79.3% from three. In addition, Isaac is the second best in the league in defensive efficiency!
Isaac is very defensive, definitely an inside gate, and the problem is that he can't stay healthy. Isaac was the No. 6 pick in the first round in 2017 and was a higher draft pick than Markkanen, Mitchell and Bam Adebayo. Isaac was born on October 3, 1997, with a height of 2.11 meters and an arm span of 2.17 meters.
Here's how many games Isaac plays in each season: 27 in 2017-18, 75 in 2018-19, 34 in 2019-20, 0 in 2020-21, 0 in 2021-22, 11 in 2022-23 and 15 in 2023-24. That is, he has only played 26 games in the last four years.
This attendance rate, saying that he is the first in the NBA, no one objects, right? Brother Qiu, who is in the same class as Isaac, many fans also call him a glass man, but Brother Qiu has played a total of 252 regular season games in his career so far, 90 more than Isaac (162)! Tatum, who is in the same class as the two of them, has played 458 regular season games, nearly twice as many as Brother Qiu and three times as many as Isaac.
Isaac's current contract is four years, $70 million, expiring in the summer of 2025. The guaranteed amount is $7.6 million for this season and not guaranteed for the 2024-25 season. The Magic knew that Isaac was prone to injury, so they added an incentive clause to the contract for the number of battles. Judging from the attendance rate of the past four years, it is obvious that he will not get this money.
In January 2020, he suffered a severe sprain and bone contusion to his left knee. In August 2020, Isaac suffered a torn cruciate ligament and a torn meniscus in his left knee. In December 2020, the Magic gave Isaac that big four-year, 70 million contract. After two and a half years of recuperation, Isaac did not return until January 2023.
Unexpectedly, after returning to play 11 games, in March 2023, Isaac underwent surgery to repair a torn left adductor muscle and was reimbursed for the season again. Isaac is a talented interior player on whom the Magic have high hopes, but he has never been able to live up to his talent. In addition to Isaac, Fultz is also out due to injury, and their health is a big problem!
One last question: Who else can you think of as a brittle player like Isaac?