Magic’s Paolo Banchero: Closing in on return

The Magic announced Friday that Banchero has entered the “return to competition reconditioning” phase of his recovery from a torn right oblique, but he remains without a firm timeline to be cleared for game action, Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press reports. “Just been doing a lot of rehab and a lot of ramping up, trying to get my body back to playing shape,” Banchero said prior to Friday’s 108-85 loss to the Knicks, when asked where he stands in his recovery from the injury he sustained Oct. 30. “Obviously, I had to sit 30-plus days without really doing much. So, I just had to kind of get my body back in that mode and I’m still in the process of that.”

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