Michael Porter Jr. has taken his game to a whole new level in his first season with the Brooklyn Nets, garnering significant All-Star consideration for averaging 25 points on efficient shooting splits.<\/p>\n
Though MPJ hasn’t won at the same rate he did with the Denver Nuggets, he did help the Nets go 7-4 in the month of December while averaging 28.3 points on 51.5% shooting, including 47.5% from 3-point range on over 10 such attempts per game, in 10 games.<\/p>\n
However, the Nets have since bottomed out after shockingly looking like a team that could get to the playoffs for the first time since 2023.<\/p>\n
Still, it seems Porter has seen enough to believe in the Nets’ long-term vision, suggesting he could stay with the team beyond this season.<\/p>\n
“I think that we are on the right path to being a good team,” Porter said. “We’re the youngest team in the league. They got a lot of money over there to spend, and they got the most picks. We’re looking at a high draft pick this next season. So I understand the vision of the organization. Sometimes I have to remind myself of that, because I’ve just won a lot of basketball games, and it can be tough because I wanna play winning basketball and compete. If I’m putting my body through all this recovery, all this work, I wanna see the W at the end of the day. But we are building something, and we’re developing really good young players. It’s not far off from being a really dope thing in Brooklyn.”<\/p>\n
Losing, of course, is not easy on anybody, but the Nets are in the biggest market in the league, have a ton of cap space in future years, the most first-round draft picks, and some budding young talent, all of which Porter acknowledged.<\/p>\n
With that said, the Nets’ path to title contention isn’t as far off as some other teams that don’t have the same avenues to acquire game-changing talent.<\/p>\n
The Nets certainly hope they can bring in at least one future with their 2026 first-round draft pick, but they will be well-positioned to acquire another superstar the minute they hit the trade market.<\/p>\n
Whoever that superstar will become is unknown, but Porter has proven that he can mesh well with just about anybody, given his ability to score a majority of his points off the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Porter Jr. has taken his game to a whole new level in his first season with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-603217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116070513784312582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603217","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=603217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}