Daniel Orton has no major structural knee damage

An MRI exam on Daniel Orton's troublesome left knee revealed no major structural damage, both the Orlando Magic rookie and Magic President of Basketball Operations Otis Smith said Monday night.

"There's probably a little bit of cartilage damage, nothing major," Smith said. "We'll have to figure out how we're going to manage it, either through meds or get a little surgery. But I'm not sure. It depends on Daniel."

A team doctor examined Orton on Monday after the MRI.

The rookie center said he will seek a second opinion by the physician in Oklahoma who operated on his knee during his senior year of high school. Orton left open the possibility that he'll have surgery, but he said he would like surgery to be "the very last option."

Orton injured his knee Saturday night, during the second game of his NBA Development League stint with the New Mexico Thunderbirds.

"I grabbed a rebound and I turned and I kind of twisted my knee," Orton said before the Magic faced the Atlanta Hawks. "When I threw the ball, I heard kind of crack and I felt it, too. So, I just walked over to the bench and asked for a sub. And then I couldn't really bend it. It was really stiff on me after that."

The knee has troubled Orton since high school. As a junior, he partially tore the knee's anterior cruciate ligament. As a senior, he tore meniscus cartilage in the knee and subsequently underwent surgery to repair both the meniscus and the ACL.