Josh Kroenke flew in from Las Vegas Thursday morning following the NHL’s annual awards banquet the night before and arrived at the Nuggets’ team offices for the final stages of draft prep. His staff then dropped this bombshell of a prediction for their No. 14 overall pick.
“The first thing out of their mouths was, ‘We need to talk about Michael Porter. He might be there.’” Kroenke recalled. “I think the word I said back to them was, ‘Seriously?’”
Thus began a mad dash to answer a hypothetical question which become a reality, the drafting of Porter, who slid all the way to Denver.