PORTLAND, Ore. – Nuggets rookie Michael Porter Jr. always wondered what his first NBA basket would look like.
As it turned out, after a first-half Tuesday night where Porter waited nervously for his name to get called, the gifted scorer wasn’t entirely comfortable when the moment was on his fingertips.
“I kept playing with the ball because I couldn’t get a feel for it,” Porter said after making his professional debut in Denver’s preseason opener in Portland. “I was gonna make a move before I did, but the ball was feeling weird, so then I just dribbled again and then did a sidestep.