{"id":349854,"date":"2025-12-15T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349854\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:06:09","slug":"nba-fans-think-michael-porter-jr-wants-to-play-in-the-wnba-because-of-a-fake-viral-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349854\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fans think Michael Porter Jr. wants to play in the WNBA because of a fake viral post"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA fans think Michael Porter Jr. wants to play in the WNBA because of a fake viral post<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last month, Brooklyn Nets<\/a> star Michael Porter Jr. made some eyebrow-raising comments about the level of basketball being played in the WNBA.<\/p>\n

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Appearing with Lonzo Ball on the Ball in the Family podcast, Porter claimed that he could have taken down a team of WNBA stars when he was in the eighth grade<\/a> — an incendiary comment that prompted a reply from Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But did Porter have even more to say on the topic of playing in the WNBA?<\/p>\n

A viral post on X claims that Porter recently said he wanted to play a season in the W “just to see if (he) could break” Wilt Chamberlain’s single-game points record of 100.<\/p>\n

As of Monday morning, the post has 1.1 million impressions and more than 39,000 likes.<\/p>\n

Perhaps fortunately, the quote is completely fabricated. It is the work of the popular satirical account @TheNBACentel on X.<\/p>\n

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“(I know) this is a parody account. But he would actually say something like this,” wrote @CryptoG<\/a><\/p>\n

To date, Porter has not chimed back in on the state of the WNBA since his controversial podcast appearance.<\/p>\n

Instead, he has since poured his efforts into playing some of the best basketball of his career.<\/p>\n

Porter this season is averaging a career-best 25.6 points per game for the Brooklyn Nets, who have won four of their past six games to improve their record to 7-18.<\/p>\n

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