Michael Porter Jr. is unlikely to ever make an All-Defensive team, but Nuggets coach Michael Malone doesn’t expect that.
What he does expect — and what Porter has exhibited through three games this season — is a willingness to commit on the less heralded end of the floor, the side which has come so much less naturally to the gifted 6-foot-10 forward.
“I’m so proud of Michael,” Malone said after the Nuggets survived the Thunder on Saturday night, winning both games of a back-to-back despite arriving back in Denver at 3:30 in the morning.
“We lost to Utah, but that second half, I loved how he played,” he continued.