{"id":68389,"date":"2025-12-12T03:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:49:14","slug":"michael-porter-jr-hopes-to-convince-nets-hes-worth-keeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68389\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Porter Jr. hopes to convince Nets he&#8217;s worth keeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 This summer, Michael Porter Jr. got salary-dumped by Denver, the forward getting labeled a chucker and the Nets getting panned for the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Now in the midst of a career breakthrough, Porter wants to be where he\u2019s wanted. Wants to be in Brooklyn for the long haul, playing like an All-Star.<\/p>\n<p>Is he playing too well for a tanking team?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37908203\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-brooklyn-nets-goes-shot-116891871.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Porter Jr. #17 of the Brooklyn Nets goes up for a shot as Micah Peavy #14 of the New Orleans Pelicans defends during the second half at Barclays Center, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Brooklyn, NY.\" class=\"wp-image-37908203\"  \/>Michael Porter goes up for a shot as Micah Peavy defends during the second half of the Nets\u2019 win over the Pelicans at Barclays Center on Dec. 6, 2025. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>How rebuilding Brooklyn answers that is going to make for a fascinating watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 This summer, Michael Porter Jr. got salary-dumped by Denver, the forward getting labeled a chucker and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,4600,21,9,24,63,319,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-68389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-michael-porter-jr","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}