{"id":712507,"date":"2026-04-17T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:48:38","slug":"nets-michael-porter-jr-details-how-rest-of-nba-should-perceive-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712507\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets&#8217; Michael Porter Jr. details how rest of NBA should perceive him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 16, 2026, 10:58 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">NEW YORK &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" data-autotag=\"02f2623f-cb52-4847-8284-ff461d726c25\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> forward <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> is coming off the best season of his career as he undertook a new role as the primary scoring option for a rebuilding Nets team. While Porter didn&#8217;t make the All-Star Game for the first time in his career, he still proved how impactful he can be and he explained how others should view him and his game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Definitely. I think overall, it was a positive season for me. I think there&#8217;s even steps and levels that I can expand my game even more,&#8221; Porter during his exit interview on Monday when asked if others around the NBA should view him as an All-Star caliber player every season. Porter, along with everyone else on the team, had to endure a tough season where wins were hard to come by, but he&#8217;s confident in where his game is at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I compare this season to a little bit like my first season in the NBA. Your first season at NBA, you see a whole lot,&#8221; Porter continued. &#8220;You see the speed of the game and everything, and then that offseason, you get to adjust and realize what the NBA is all about and come back better. I feel like for me in this new role, it just felt like a completely different experience out there on the basketball court with a new team, young guys, new role for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Porter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/portemi01.html\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">27<\/a>, averaged 24.2 points, 7.1 rebounds, and 3.0 assists per game while shooting 46.3% from the field and 36.3% from behind the three-point line. Porter displayed his ability to perform well in a more-involved role as he achieved career-highs in points per game and assists per contest, but he also shot below his career-marks in shooting percentages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Porter also played just 52 games, which was the least amount of games that he&#8217;s played in a season since the 2021-22 campaign when he played in just nine games for the Denver Nuggets. With that being said, Porter played well enough to be considered by many to be an All-Star for the first time in his career so it seems that many around the league already view him as a difference-making kind of player.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 16, 2026, 10:58 a.m. ET NEW YORK &#8212; Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. is coming off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[72400,7,670,247,3803,6,671,72503,72504,72404,72505,72508,72444,72422,72405,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-712507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklynnets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nets","15":"tag-sstssportsnbanets","16":"tag-sstsnnets","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-tagbrooklyn-nets","19":"tag-tagmichael-porter-jr","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnba","22":"tag-tagoverall-positive","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116420601694007709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712507","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=712507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}