Michael Porter Jr. is nothing if not confident. Falling from a lottery pick to the Nuggets at No. 14 overall hasn’t changed that. After meeting with Denver media last week, Porter Jr. continued his media tour Tuesday by calling into The Dan Patrick Show (DirecTV channel 239) and offered some more insight to what the Mile High City can expect from him as a rookie. Here are a couple of highlights:
The player he can’t wait to face in the NBA: “LeBron James. I can’t wait to play the very best player in the NBA. I can’t wait to test myself against him. I’m not really one to back down from anybody, I just want to be a problem for him. Go at him and do what I can do and test myself against the very best.”
Who he thought would draft him: “Before I got hurt, I’d say Sacramento at 2. We talked a lot, they loved me, they got a great feel for me. They told me that I was there guy. But after that hip injury, I had no idea. I thought maybe Cleveland at 8, Chicago at 7, I had no idea. I heard Dallas maybe at 5. I knew L.A. wasn’t taking me, but there were a bunch of teams. It was kind of scary.”
You can listen to the full interview with Porter Jr., who said he thought he could have transitioned well to the NBA had he gone straight out of high school, here.
— Matt L. Stephens, The Denver Post
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