Practice was wrapping up Wednesday when Michael Porter Jr. took the floor. On a side goal of the Nuggets’ practice facility, Porter offered everyone a small reminder of why he was the top-rated prospect in his high school class by sliding around the three-point arc and swishing one deep ball after another. Porter’s jumper looked impossibly smooth for a player…...
Nuggets star center Nikola Jokic is not only one of the most talented offensive players in the league, he’s also one of the most unique. At 6-foot-10, Jokic profiles as a center, but in Denver, he runs the show as the Nuggets’ point guard. His 6.1 assists per game last year ranked first on the team by a wide margin…...
Clark chats with Missouri beat writer Aaron Reiss from the Kansas City Star, who covered Michael Porter Jr. last season. The two discuss what Porter was like on and off the floor last year for the Tigers.
On Wednesday afternoon around 24 hours before the NBA Draft, Josh Kroenke was in Las Vegas for the NHL Awards. Avalanche coach Jared Bednar was up for the Jack Adams award, which goes to the league’s top coach, and star centerman Nathan MacKinnon was a finalist for the Hart Trophy, which is given to the league’s Most Valuable Player. Kroenke had…...
By Michael Porter Jr.’s own admission, the game of basketball has always come easy to him. As a high school senior, Porter became just the fifth player ever to win MVP of the McDonald’s All-American Game as well as the Naismith and Gatorade National Player of the Year awards, following in the footsteps of Dwight Howard (2004), LeBron James (2003),…...
It must have been uncomfortable, to say the least, for Michael Porter Jr. as he sat in the Green Room and watched the same players he had dominated on the AAU and High School circuits for years, walk across the stage and shake commissioner Adam Silver’s hand one by one. Porter was the second-ranked high school player in his class.…...
Wind and Clark recap the NBA Draft from Pepsi Center and give their thoughts on the Nuggets’ picking Michael Porter Jr 14th overall. What’s the risk and what’s the reward when it comes to such a surprising selection? DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! iTunes link | Stitcher Link | Pocket Casts Link
Michael Porter Jr.’s slide surprised everybody — including Michael Porter Jr. “It’s been an unreal night,” he said Thursday. All spring and summer, any mock draft you could find had the sweet-shooting 6-foot-10 forward going somewhere in the top 10. It didn’t matter that Porter played a total of 53 minutes in his lone season of college at Missouri because…...
Wind and Clark pour one out for the Nuggets’ pre-draft workouts which likely came to an end Thursday and discuss Earl Boykins’ assertion that LeBron has pretty much signed in Denver. Finally, who are the Nuggets selecting in the BSN Denver NBA Mock Draft 2.0, why the Hawks are a natural trade partner and is Shai Gilgeous Alexander a logical target for Denver in the first round?
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