According to Shams Charania, journalist at The Athletic, Nikola Vucevic, the pivot of the Orlando Magic, will be away from the NBA floors for at least four weeks, following a right ankle injury. The Montenegrin was injured while defending a Toronto Raptors player on Wednesday (Orlando loss 113-97).
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Elected to the All Star Game for the first time in his career last season, Vucevic had just been named Eastern Conference Player of the Week. This season, he was so far the co-top scorer of the Orlando Magic (17.1 points average per game, tied with Evan Fournier) and the best rebounder of his team (11.6 rebounds on average) .
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