Michael Porter Jr.’s career breakthrough performance — an All-Star-caliber campaign — is shocking everybody except the man putting it together.
The Nets forward isn’t surprised with what he’s doing. Only how.
Doing it in the wake of potentially debilitating back woes and multiple surgeries, the same injuries and operations that ruined Ben Simmons. Doing it with foot drop, playing in the same brace that stroke victims wear to re-learn how to walk.
Make no mistake, Porter being the only player in the Eastern Conference averaging at least 25 points and seven rebounds is impressive — even more so on a rebuilding, talent-starved Nets team (11-22) that is winless this season without him.
