The day after the Nuggets won the championship, Nicodemus Christopher received a text that he knows shouldn’t have surprised him. But it was the day after the Nuggets won the championship, so yeah, it kind of did anyway.
“Mike is blowing me up,” Christopher recalled, “about getting in the weight room: ‘Bro, offseason started. Let’s go.'”
Christopher has been Michael Porter Jr.’s strength trainer for eight years, dating back to a wayward season of injury frustration when Porter was a top draft prospect at Missouri. Perhaps fittingly, that was the year that set off the chain reaction leading to Porter’s text.