The Nuggets made a bad bet on a bad back. And now a house of cards is sturdier than their championship dreams.
“In my opinion,” oft-injured forward Michael Porter Jr. said Friday, “we can be the best team in the NBA when we have everybody healthy.”
Well that sounds nice, until you acknowledge the cold, hard facts of the boxscore: MPJ is damaged goods at the tender age of 23.
In five basketball seasons since graduating from high school, Porter has taken the court for only 157 of the 390 games on the schedule of the Nuggets and the University of Missouri, because his creaky, frequently repaired back has made him unfit to play at an alarming 60% rate.