Michael Porter Jr. was one of the best high school prospects of the last 10 years but saw his draft stock plummet due to various back injuries. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as MPJ slid out of the lottery and fell to the Denver Nuggets with the 15th pick in the legendary 2018 Draft.
MPJ went into the Nuggets locker room, not knowing much about the team but was pretty stunned to see that the leader of the team, Nikola Jokic, was out of shape and spent his summers drinking beer and riding horses.
“So, Jokic when I first met him, he was fat. He’s skinnier now. I think he started taking his health more seriously because, before that, I heard after the season, he just goes back, drinks beer, rides horses, and then tries to get in shape before the season starts. I didn’t know too much about him because I didn’t watch the Nuggets. We come to training camp and he’s doing alright but Mason Plumlee was doing just as good as Joker. I’m like, ‘Wait, why does Joker start over Mason Plumlee?’ I remember my teammates saying, ‘No, when he wants to not pass and just score, he can score 40 a night.’ I was like, ‘No way, bro.’ They just said to wait till the season starts. I’ve never seen anything like him.”
Improving his conditioning and slimming down ultimately led to Nikola Jokic winning back-to-back MVPs and may pay off with the Nuggets winning the championship this season.
The Nuggets Await The Results Of Game 7
The final game of the Eastern Conference Finals will take place tonight, as the Celtics host the Heat in the TD Garden after taking a 3-0 series deficit and tying it up 3-3. The Heat don’t want to be the first team in league history to blow a 3-0 lead, so they’ll be ready to leave it all on the court.
The Nuggets match up well against both rosters but could look at the Heat as a more ideal matchup due to their lack of size and athleticism. If the Lakers weren’t big enough for the Nuggets, neither Boston nor Miami will be able to live up to that either.
The Celtics are far more switchable and will be a lot more challenging to stop, but with the grueling seven-game series that we have on our hands, Denver will be happy to catch their opponents tired after what will be an exhausting Game 7.
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