{"id":532082,"date":"2026-01-12T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/532082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:18:15","slug":"nets-change-trade-position-on-all-star-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/532082\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets Change Trade Position On All-Star Hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this point, Brooklyn Nets rising star Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> is considered to be the Golden State Warriors primary trade target. The general feeling heading into this week was that it was a matter of when Porter would be moved rather than if he would. In fact, The Athletic\u2019s John Hollinger reported that he was \u201ca lock to<\/a>\u201d be traded by Feb. 5 deadline.<\/p>\n

Now, two prominent NBA insiders are all but shutting down the speculation about Porter being traded in the immediate future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nets, looking ahead towards next season, are going to want to take a step forward<\/a>. Michael Porter Jr. could very well be a part of that with the way he\u2019s playing and he\u2019s still young, in his prime,\u201d HoopsHype insider Michael Scotto tells YES Network host Justin Shackil.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026I would temper expectations on a trade,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

On the heels of that report, The Stein Line insider Marc Stein appeared on the ALL NBA Podcast, stating plainly that: \u201c\u2026The Nets \u2014more people that I speak to than not \u2014keep telling me the Nets would rather not trade him now, as hot as he is, to wait till the offseason<\/a>, see how they do in the lottery, and then make a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Essentially, there\u2019s not necessarily a guarantee that Porter will remain with the Nets through the Feb. 5 trade deadline. Nevertheless, Brooklyn doesn\u2019t appear to be gung-ho about trading him during his career season. Of note, Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez recently offered high praise<\/a> for 27-year-old, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s an All-Star. He\u2019s played like an All-Star. You just gotta watch him play and how much better he\u2019s gotten. And he\u2019s been in a different role (as the first option). He\u2019s proven he can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compare those comments to Fernandez\u2019s lukewarm compliments on Cam Thomas<\/a>\u2018s game. Or better yet, see how they contrast<\/a> with Nets former head coach Kevin Ollie\u2019s criticism of Mikal Bridges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Will This Make Teams Try Harder To Trade For Him?<\/p>\n

Porter has his flaws but he\u2019s a dynamic talent who has shown he can play a niche role or an expanded one and still dominate. The icing on the cake is that he\u2019s in his physical prime, making him an ideal acquisition for a playoff team.<\/p>\n

Of course, all of this would only make Porter more enticing to the Warriors.<\/p>\n

After all, they desperately want to remain in title-contention. On top of that, the 6-foot-10 marksman is seen as someone who can be current Dallas Mavericks wing and former Warriors mainstay Klay Thompson<\/a>\u2018s successor. Due to that fit, there\u2019s a chance that Golden State would up the ante, making a Godfather offer<\/a> to Brooklyn. Keep in mind, a\u00a0three-team trade featuring Porter, Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> and a Sacramento Kings veteran could be in the works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Detroit Pistons are another team that could see Porter as just the type of player they need.<\/p>\n

Tobias Harris<\/a> hasn\u2019t performed as well as Detroit expected. Replacing Harris, a starter who\u2019s averaging 13.4 points per game and shooting 33.3% from 3, with Porter would go a long way. Notably, Porter is averaging 25.9 points per game and shooting 39.7% from 3. Meanwhile, the Pistons rank 26th in 3-point conversions per game (11.1) and 18th in 3-point percentage (.352). Furthermore, MVP candidate Cade Cunningham<\/a> has to do a lot of heavy lifting offensively. He\u2019s their only player averaging over 18 points per game. No other perimeter player is averaging over 14 points per game.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At this point, Brooklyn Nets rising star Michael Porter Jr. is considered to be the Golden State Warriors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,909,562,6,6050,7170,2828,671],"class_list":{"0":"post-532082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-cade-cunningham","13":"tag-michael-porter-jr","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-rumors","16":"tag-nba-trade","17":"tag-nba-trade-deadline","18":"tag-nets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115883272846906344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}