Michael Porter Jr. is no stranger to controversy on social media, most of it self-created. There was the time he hustled some gamers out of their shoes, or the time he sent out NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s telephone number live. There was his “also pray for the police officers involved in this evil” declaration shortly after the death of George Floyd that certainly seemed to come from a heartfelt place but was ill-received by both the public and some fellow NBA players.
A redditor, ILikePizzaRolls on the NBA Reddit, points out another fearless pronouncement from MPJ, namely that the coronavirus is being used as a means of population control (by which it seems he means to control what the population can do rather than to eliminate certain portions of the population).