“Positives and Negatives of the NBA Lifestyle!”<\/a> posted to YouTube yesterday, Porter offers up the reality that not every player in the league is fighting to reach their full potential. <\/p>\n\u201cMan, I think this was a myth for me coming in\u2014something I believed\u2014but I think it\u2019s also a misconception that a lot of people believe: that everybody works really, really hard,\u201d Porter Jr. said. \u201cYou have to be talented and gifted, and you do have to work hard to get here. But a lot of people don\u2019t work on their game, don\u2019t work on their bodies, don\u2019t work on staying healthy. They don\u2019t put the time into recovery as much as you would think.”<\/p>\n
Given Porter’s injury history, it’s fair to assume that this is personal for him. He’s had two seasons\u2014his rookie campaign in 2018-19 and 2021-22\u2014where he’s been unable to appear in more than nine games, hence the emphasis on staying healthy. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have always been, as you know, super, super dedicated. I love to work hard. But I feel like that\u2019s not the case for every NBA player. I was also forced into it due to my injury situation,\u201d Porter continued.<\/p>\n
Porter then referenced the modern game’s definition of longevity: LeBron James. According to the Nets’ forward, James is a prime example of the positive results an NBA player can have if they truly focus on taking care of their body. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of talented and gifted players \u2014 but not all are dedicated. That\u2019s the misconception: that hard work is universal in the league. Now, you do have the dudes who are super dedicated. Like Bron\u2014he\u2019s been in the league 20 years, maybe more. His body\u2026 like, he\u2019s a tremendous worker,\u201d Porter said. \u201cBut then you\u2019ve also got the dudes who are just chilling, for real. Especially once they get paid, you see some guys kind of chill out a little.\u201d<\/p>\n
While not as headline-dominant as discussing Andrew Tate or Jontay Porter’s off-court issues, Porter’s words are impactful. As someone who’s gone through quite a long injury history as a 27-year-old, Brooklyn’s big-time summer addition certainly knows what he’s talking about. <\/p>\n
Nets fans just hope the words translate into a healthy 2025-26 season for Porter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since being traded to the Brooklyn Nets, Michael Porter Jr. has quickly become one of the most-quoted individuals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-79954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}