Dwight Howard was recently diagnosed with a herniated disk in his lower back and will miss the next 10 days of the season while he recovers.

“The only thing you can do is rest,” Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith said.

Stan Van Gundy said Howard received an epidural injection for pain relief and likely will begin physical-therapy work Monday.

“Look, anytime you have a guy on that kind of timetable you’ve got to assume that the playoffs are a 50-50 thing,” Van Gundy said. “So we’ve got to go forward assuming that what’s in our locker room is our team going forward.”