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Michael Porter Jr.: "KD is a good dude, but he is known for having burners, so who knows. People, everything with AI, with this, with that, you don't know what's real. So, I'm not about to say it's for sure him without knowing for sure. But like if I had a teammate and like a group chat came out where my teammate was talking crazy about all of us, that would be wild though."
“You know what’s crazy? Me and Klay Thompson just worked out together. I used to think I was the best shooter, but not anymore, dog,” the Brooklyn Nets forward Porter Jr. said. “He beat me by one spot. It was close, and after the workout he was like, ‘It’s been so long since I’ve shot against someone that challenges me. And that’s how I felt, that I never get to work out with someone that challenges me.'”
However, Porter's belief in his own team far surpasses the expectations many have for them. In an appearance on N3on's stream, the Nets forward went as far as to declare that Brooklyn will reach the 50-win mark next season. “If we can get that chemistry right, all of young guys right here got so much better. I don't know what the expectations are for our team, but we're gonna definitely surpass that,” Porter said. “Yeah, I do [think that we're gonna surpass the 50-win mark].”
Michael Porter Jr: "My energy output this last year was so much higher than in Denver because of how much I was relied on and the defenders I had on me. Every team's putting their best defender on me. I'm going from Ausar Thompson to Jaden McDaniels to this guy to that guy every game. My energy output, I just think I got to really work on like Steph does, really being in shape, so all game I can just move off the ball. I think I could be the best off-ball player in the NBA because I'm good at cutting around the rim. My finish percentage around the rim is like real high. And then, you know, catch and shoot threes and things like that. I think if I'm in good shape, I could be the best off-ball player in the NBA. So I think that's the main thing off the court. And then on the court, I think getting in that mid-post, face up, when stuff gets tough at the end of the game, mid-post face up, not a ton of dribbles, you know, one-dribble pull-up, jab shot. I think I got to master that a little bit better."
Michael Porter Jr.: "For the majority part of the year, I was shooting about 40% from three. One thing I regret is that once I didn't make that All-Star game, I kind of let my foot up off the gas because there was really nothing we were playing for anymore. We couldn't make the playoffs, I couldn't be an All-Star, so I let my foot off the gas. I wasn't in the weight room as much, I wasn't preparing as much, and my three-point percentage dropped. But even the crazy shots I was shooting this year, I still was almost 40%."
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Julius Randle is stepping into a new but familiar role with the Brooklyn Nets this season. After spending the last four years as a lead option on playoff teams, Randle will attempt to lift the Nets out of the NBA’s basement in 2026-27. He’ll have an accomplished co-star, Michael Porter Jr., alongside him during that pursuit. Randle feels he and Porter can complement each other effectively as they lead Brooklyn’s offense. “It’s gonna be great,” the Nets trade acquisition told Gabriel Martins of his fit alongside Porter. “You know, we’re two completely different players, as far as like style of play. And I think we actually complement each other very well. I can do a lot with the ball off the dribble, creating. And he’s a great catch-and-shoot guy who can really space the floor. So I think we’ll complement each other very well.”
Killa: Michael Porter Jr. addresses the BACKLASH over being seen with a transgender woman in Taiwan, telling Jason Lee he had NO IDEA she was trans and arguing that transgender women should disclose it to men upfront. “She looked good to me physically… We kicked it for like an hour and someone took a picture. I had no idea who that woman was and no idea she was transgender… Over there, the surgeries are so good you can’t tell.”
MPJ: What was the emotions like kind of as the contract talks were going on throughout the summer? Peyton Watson: You know, it was a bittersweet feeling when the news finally came. I remember during the summer, just going through the ebbs and flows of negotiations and talks with the team and my agents and just understanding that we had gotten to a point where Denver was between a rock and a hard place financially. Everybody was aware of them facing the tax bill, and just kind of the way things shook out at the beginning with free agency, it was like a few teams had cap space, but then the cap just dried up super quick. A lot of teams were not willing to go through the war that restricted free agency is. You see, there's still some really really good restricted free agents on the market. I'm lucky to have gotten a resolution with my situation as fast as I did. like we me and you talked about it, but this could have stretched out all summer.
Michael Porter Jr., Nets. Porter is in an odd spot because he needs an extension as he heads into the final year of his contract, at $40 million. He showed All-Star ability when given more free reign last year, but that was on a bad Nets team. Brooklyn should be better this year, and Porter will need to show he can keep putting up star numbers on a team that is trying. But if an extension does not get done … what then? Eastern Conference executive: “I think what he did last year is legit and teams are going to see it that way. But the problem you have is if you trade for him, are you going to extend him and what is the number? The Nuggets overpaid him when they gave him that extension, and if he wants to be paid based on that, that is not going to be an easy sell. If he can accept getting into a salary slot that makes more sense for him, you can make that trade. It’s an expiring deal but the Nets would get a first-round pick for him still.”
Michael Porter Jr.: It's just crazy how the media can like… and that's part of the reason I like doing this podcast cuz they can put narratives onto people that are just the furthest thing from the truth. You know what I mean? And it's just like it was, me and you talked on the phone about that and I told you don't trip about that cuz I've been through my fair share of smear campaigns, you know what I mean? Peyton Watson: Absolutely. And, you know, a lot of times with us as the athlete, we don't even know where the information's coming from. Like, we're not putting this out. We're not saying anything like this to anybody. So, when people are seeing that, it's just like this guy's comparing himself to his teammates. This guy sat out the playoffs. This guy's doing that. And it's just like all of these things are just like a narrative that somebody's putting out there that's completely untrue. One, and then two, it's just like an indictment on my character, which is even crazier.
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Ball did not spend much time trying to make his answer sound better than it actually was. His focus was on the billion dollars, and he immediately accepted that he would act aloof in front of the button for a while and eventually press it. Knowing that the answer would come with the guilt of letting a random person die, he threw his hands up, showing that he would act as if he had nothing to do with it. "Click. You gotta do a click. Like, I'm thinking about like I wouldn't do that. I just click one. I'm doing it strictly for the billion. Nothing else here," Ball said, later adding, "This is what I'm gonna say: I didn't catch the body. It wasn't me. I have no ties. My hand slipped type s—t. I need the billion. We can figure out everything else after that."
Instead of focusing on the one person who would die, he thought about what he could do with the money after pressing the button. He simply held to the logic that if one life was lost, he would spend a part of the billion to save another thousand lives, to justify making the choice. "I'm doing it and this is the reason why. I could take $300 million and go save thousands of lives," Porter Jr. said. "Go give it to somewhere over there in Africa or somewhere that has a lot of poverty going on and save a bunch of lives. So that makes up for the one life that was lost for the billion. Then take the other $700 million to the crib. That's how I would justify it."
Peyton Watson: Nuggets Nation and the city of Denver, Thank you for having me for the first four years of my career. As a young NBA player, who was a bit naive and hadn't seen much of the real world, you guys took care of me better than I could have ever imagined. Thanks for that. Playing this game every night on the national stage is difficult on both the body and the mind, but the love from the fans always makes it so worthwhile. I will miss seeing you all at Ball Arena. A few special thank yous: Calvin Booth for believing in me out of UCLA. The Kroenke family. Coach Malone, Coach Adelman and the rest of the staff. All of my teammates for helping to raise me up. AG for being my big brother. DJ for keeping me in check. Joker and Jamal for all the assists on and off the floor. KCP for throwing my 21st birthday party. MPJ for all the late night workouts and dinners. But again, most of all, thank you to the fans. Playing in front of you has been a dream come true. I'll see you all soon.
Michael Porter Jr.: "I don't know why they let KCP go. That was the beginning of our downfall. We still went Game 7 with Minnesota after Tim Connelly kind of built Minnesota to try to beat us with the two bigs. Because then you put KAT on Joker and you let Rudy kind of roam. So they kind of built that team to try to beat us and they got us in Game 7. Then they let us run it back another year and that's when we lost to OKC in Game 7. That's when I got hurt. I was wearing the pad on my shoulder. My shoulder was like dislocated and stuff and we lost to OKC in Game 7. I had a terrible playoffs because I had an AC joint grade two injury. It was like a three or four-month injury, but I'm trying to play through it. I'm popping it with the numbing stuff with a needle every game. I'm trying to play through it, can't lift my arm, but we lose and I played the worst. So I'm like, okay, I'm the one that's probably going to get shipped out."