{"id":350326,"date":"2025-12-15T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350326\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:52:08","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\/us\/350326\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fans think Michael Porter Jr. wants to play in the WNBA because of a fake viral post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> star Michael Porter Jr. made some eyebrow-raising comments about the level of basketball being played in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\/news\/michael-porter-jr-had-more-say-wnba-amid-sophie-cunningham-controversy\/ec2cfbd116c3bb13ddcee6fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eighth grade<\/a> &#8212; an incendiary comment that prompted a reply from Indiana Fever guard <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/sophie-cunningham-supports-michael-porter-jr-amid-controversial-assertion-about-wnba\/b8344450ed2b7d60eed621e8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sophie Cunningham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But did Porter have even more to say on the topic of playing in the WNBA?<\/p>\n<p>A viral post on X claims that Porter recently said he wanted to play a season in the W &#8220;just to see if (he) could break&#8221; Wilt Chamberlain&#8217;s single-game points record of 100.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday morning, the post has 1.1 million impressions and more than 39,000 likes.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps fortunately, the quote is completely fabricated. It is the work of the popular satirical account @TheNBACentel on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(I know) this is a parody account. But he would actually say something like this,&#8221; wrote <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CryptoG\/status\/2000407285911134264\" rel=\"nofollow\">@CryptoG<\/a>.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd23\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/abs-0.twimg.com\/emoji\/v2\/svg\/1f923.svg\" title=\"Rolling on the floor laughing\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd23\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/abs-0.twimg.com\/emoji\/v2\/svg\/1f923.svg\" title=\"Rolling on the floor laughing\"\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael Porter Jr: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I retire, I want to play one season in the WNBA just to see if I can break Wilt\u2019s 100.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EMT7mBa0X0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EMT7mBa0X0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentel (@TheNBACentel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBACentel\/status\/2000254086130942435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 14, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>To date, Porter has not chimed back in on the state of the WNBA since his controversial podcast appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he has since poured his efforts into playing some of the best basketball of his career.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, Brooklyn Nets star Michael Porter Jr. made some eyebrow-raising comments about the level of basketball being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-350326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}