Thursday marked 264 days since Jalen Suggs suited up to take the court in an NBA game. That’s how long it’s been since he last played Jan. 25 at home against the Pistons before his season took a turn for the worse.

Although Suggs knew he wasn’t playing in Orlando’ s preseason finale at Kia Center against the Pelicans , the Magic guard wanted to know what it felt like again to go through his pre-game routine and wear his uniform just like the rest of his teammates.

As he put it, the process, that was once the minutiae of life in the league, was beginning to feel foreign to him.

“I want to mentally feel like I’m preparing to sub in a game so that once the time comes, because it has been so long, there’s no extra emotion that I’m carrying over from putting a uniform on,” Suggs

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