{"id":650258,"date":"2026-03-10T05:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/650258\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:23:18","slug":"michael-porter-jr-talks-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/650258\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Porter Jr. talks \u2026again"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with podcaster Emily Austin last week, Michael Porter Jr. spoke about how he\u2019s enjoying his time with the Nets \u2026 which he\u2019s said before. He also spoke about his relationship with Andrew Tate<\/a>, accused sex trafficker and self-described misogynist, which he\u2019s also done before \u2026 unfortunately.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s all 73 (not necessarily) fun minutes:<\/p>\n

MPJ, who\u2019s having the best season of his career \u2014 although he was out Monday night, has been criticized before by pundits as well as the league for his comments about women. The Nets \u2014 specifically Sean Marks \u2014 have said they\u2019ve had discussions with Porter about his remarks this summer<\/a> on both his own podcast as well as others. In particular, team officials (plural) discussed his remarks about how he would play audio of Tate\u2019s most misogynist comments to dates to see how they\u2019d react.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose conversations that myself and a group have had with Michael will remain internal,\u201d Marks said on Media Day. \u201cI think this is, as Jordi [Fern\u00e1ndez] alluded to, a new environment for him, a new market, new expectations, new roles, both on the court and in the locker room for him. So, I think he\u2019s finding his way.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Marks said that he didn\u2019t anticipate speaking with Porter again on the subject.<\/p>\n

In the discussion with Austin, MPJ recalled those comments regarding Tate but seemed to go a bit further, indicating a personal connection with the former kickboxer, referring to Tate as \u201cmy dawg.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey put my dawg in jail with no proof he did any of that,\u201d referring to charges against Tate, particularly in Romania. \u201cThey tried to say he trafficked them, but we don\u2019t know. We know that they will put allegations on the people that are speaking too much facts\u2026 But his underlying message, like now, when I watch any of his stuff, he just likes to speak pretty true. Now he has has a platform; he\u2019s not doing all that wild stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

MPJ also suggested to Austin that women make unfounded rate allegations \u201call the time.\u201d \u201cYou should get mad at females for doing that, he said. \u201dWomen do that all the time and ruin men\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter also attempted to compare a situation he faced during COVID to Tate\u2019s situation, accusing an unknown \u201cthey\u201d of trying to poison his reputation. Like Kyrie Irving, Porter declined the COVID vaccine. Before that he had suggested that the epidemic might be used to \u201ccontrol the masses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I didn\u2019t get the vaccine, all of a sudden they started talking crazy about me,\u201d he told Austin. \u201cThey tried to make me sound I\u2019m slow or stupid because I didn\u2019t get the vaccine. Now you fast forward a couple years later, now everybody wishes they didn\u2019t get the vaccine,\u201d he said echoing an unproven conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n

He continued, claiming inaccurately that the vaccine was the product of only six month research.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this research coming out about why it was harmful for you all, a lot of scientists have come out and said there\u2019s no way clinically that they could be out a safe vaccine within six months. The vaccine was not safe to take, and it caused a lot of harm. I didn\u2019t want to put it in my body for my own reasons, but when I didn\u2019t, they started putting all this crazy labels on me that just weren\u2019t true. So I have experienced it personally that they can literally create any narrative they want about someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

COVID vaccinations was one of two areas where MPJ seemed to echo Irving. In response to an Austin question on whether the earth is flat, Porter said he wasn\u2019t sure of the earth\u2019s shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve just seen so many theories on like the structure of earth,\u201d said Porter. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know where I land on that.\u201d When Austin follows up and asks if the earth might not be round, MPG responds, \u201cMight not be. Hate to break it to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his comments on the Nets, Porter re-emphasized his happiness with the Nets organization and his place in it. MPJ is under contract with the Nets for $38.8 million this season and $40.3 million next. As he noted, though, there\u2019s a big difference between his time in Brooklyn and his first five years in the league with Denver, contending every year and winning the NBA championship three years ago, and this season with Brooklyn, which is rebuilding. He also reiterated his desire to stay with the Nets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m enjoying my time here. It\u2019s obviously different than Denver, but um, you know, I\u2019m 27 now. And to have this time of my life to embrace this different opportunity. I\u2019m I\u2019m all about it. So, I\u2019m excited um for not only the remainder of this year, but going forward hopefully with Brooklyn,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the first time in my life that I\u2019ve ever like consistently lost. And so the goal right now is to not get like apathetic to, you know, to to losing. I want to continue to feel that that that hurt and not just kind of become numb to it cuz that\u2019s not me. I\u2019ve always been a guy that loves to win and loves to um you know lead my team and things like that,\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter also expressed his feelings about tanking. The Nets deny they\u2019re tanking and MPJ doesn\u2019t directly accuse the organization of such, but he does admit he doesn\u2019t like the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got to do something about this tanking situation. I don\u2019t like how teams are deliberately trying to tank to get a good draft pick. I think throwing full NBA seasons down the drain is not the way to go. It\u2019s not very ethical to the game, and people pay a lot of money to watch the best players in the world compete.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to see teams competing to their fullest ability every single night. When teams are doing some of the stuff they\u2019re doing nowadays, it can be tough. I\u2019ve seen people share different ideas about how that should change, but the thing is, you may tank for a whole season and still not get the draft pick you want. Even if you do get the draft pick you want, that player might not pan out the way you thought he would, and now you\u2019ve set your program back years and years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Porter told Austin that he has mixed feelings about rooting for the team that traded him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love it, and hate it, if Denver won. I\u2019d love it because those are my friends. But I\u2019d hate it because that means they got better without me,\u201d Porter Jr. said while smiling. \u201cI\u2019m like a toxic ex. \u201cI would love it for all my individual teammates, but selfishly, that human nature part of me is like, dang, they shipped me off and then they got better and won a championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to say my prediction is that if everyone gets healthy on the Nuggets \u2014 Peyton Watson broke out this year and Aaron Gordon is a difference maker \u2014 once they get healthy for the playoffs, it\u2019s going to be really, really hard to beat them in seven games,\u201d Porter Jr. contended. \u201cI\u2019m going to go with Denver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview with podcaster Emily Austin last week, Michael Porter Jr. spoke about how he\u2019s enjoying his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,6,671,5229],"class_list":["post-650258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-nets-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116203212488588561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650258","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=650258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}