Jonathan Isaac of the Orlando Magic poses for a portrait during the 2023-2024 Orlando Magic Media Day at AdventHealth Training Center in Orlando, Florida, on October 2, 2023. Julio Aguilar/Getty Images
Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac was in the spotlight in 2020 for neither taking the COVID-19 vaccine nor kneeling during the national anthem.
His faith, he said in a recent interview on Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” with Jan Jekielek, guided these decisions.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.