They should’ve traded him last winter. The Nuggets should’ve traded Michael Porter Jr. at his apex, when the kid could still make a layup in the open court without tensing up in pain.
And yet you wonder if anybody would’ve given general manager Tim Connelly the time of day on that one, if he’d called. Let alone a fair return.
They knew. Those other front offices? Those other GMs? Those other doctors? They all knew.
They knew it was only a matter of time before it all went wrong again. They knew that the clock was ticking on the surgical tangle that is MPJ’s back.