Jonathan Isaac After Injury: 'My Comeback Will Be Greater Than My Setback!!!!'

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Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac, who suffered a torn ACL in Sunday's win over the Sacramento Kings, is confident he'll be able to come back better than ever. 

"IT IS WELL!!! 2 Kings 4! Thank you for all of your prayers and concerns. I'm encouraged. Remember our God is not just a God of the hills but a God of the valleys! (2 Corinthians ch 4 vs 9!) MY COMEBACK WILL BE GREATER THAN MY SETBACK!!!! I STILL STAND IN JESUS NAME!!!!" Isaac tweeted Monday.

Isaac went down on a non-contact play in the fourth quarter of Orlando's 132-116 win. He was later diagnosed with a torn left ACL, the same knee he hyperextended in January. While Isaac had long been cleared for action, he was wearing a heavy brace on the knee.

Isaac averaged a career-high 11.9 points and 6.8 rebounds during his third NBA season, making strides offensively while playing at an All-Defensive team-level on the other end of the floor. His 2.3 blocks per game would have been fourth in the NBA if he had enough minutes to qualify among league leaders, and his 1.6 steals per game would have tied for 10th.

The Florida State product made headlines at the Orlando restart when he did not take a knee with players, coaches and game officials in protest of racial injustice and police brutality against Black people. He also did not wear the "Black Lives Matter" shirt provided by the league, citing his faith in his reasoning.

"Absolutely. I believe that Black lives matter," Isaac told reporters. "Kneeling while wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt [doesn't] go hand-in-hand with supporting Black lives. So I felt like, just me personally, standing on the stance that I do believe that Black lives matter, but I just felt like it was a decision that I had to make.

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"I believe that, for myself, my life has been supported through the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that everyone is made in the image of God and that we all fall short of God's glory. Each and every one of us do things that we shouldn't do, or say things we shouldn't say. We hate and dislike people that we shouldn't hate or dislike, and sometimes it gets to a point where we point fingers at whose evil is worse, and sometimes it comes to a point of whose evil is most visible."

While a timetable for his return has not been determined, it's unlikely he returns to the floor before the 2021-22 season. He will be a free agent in 2021.