Kaleena Patrick could’ve scaled that smile to Heaven. No COVID. No Delta variant. No gasping. No pain. Just Taurean Taylor grinning at his phone like it was a winning scratch ticket.
“I didn’t know that they’d been talking for an extended period of time,” Patrick said of her son, Taurean. “He’s like, ‘Yeah, I talk to MPJ all the time.’
“I’m like, ‘What?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah. That’s my friend.’”
He showed her his phone. Yep. That MPJ. The Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr., texting from Portland.
See, on May 16, 2021, Porter had drawn up the perfect play.