Franz Wagner's shoulder and the rest of the weekend's injury news

The last weekend before the season added a handful of injuries that our final preseason injury report could not include, from the Orlando practice where Franz Wagner was still being evaluated for a right shoulder injury to the hamstring tear Noah Penda described on Sunday. This piece covers only what is new since that report, using the team updates Hoops Rumors collected on October 18 and Fantasy Alarm's injury report of October 15, and sets each player beside the games our projections give him. Stephen Curry's ankle and Ben Simmons' Achilles, both from Sunday afternoon, have pieces of their own.

Our projections read ESPN's injury list every night and take games off for anyone listed out, while a day-to-day or questionable tag changes nothing until it becomes an absence. So the table below carries the absences that had been announced by the morning of October 18, and it deliberately does not discount a player who is only questionable for the opener.

Every player in this story is on the fantasy basketball rankings and the 2026-27 projections, and the NBA depth charts show where each one stands in his team’s rotation tonight.