He is the son of the University of Missouri’s assistant basketball coach and the nephew of that same University’s head women’s basketball coach. His two older sisters both played for the University’s women’s basketball team and his closest brother, Jontay Porter, will return for his sophomore season with the Tigers before heading to the NBA as a likely first round draft prospect. There are also four more, younger Porter siblings, all of whom are gifted basketball players at lower levels.
Porter Jr. is the type of player who has mixtapes on YouTube from his 8th grade season, where even back then he was identified as one of the top players of his age group in the entire country.