CHICAGO • The highest-rated recruit Cuonzo Martin will ever get can’t pronounce Cuonzo Martin.
“I don’t even know my own coach’s name!” Michael Porter Jr. said Tuesday with a laugh, after calling Mizzou’s coach KWAN-zo instead of KHAN-zo.
It was a playful moment, not the end of the world, but it sums up just what has happened in the past fortnight. College basketball recruiting is a meticulous, arduous process; in this case, the No.1 player in the land agreed to play for a coach he barely knows.
Everything about Michael Porter Jr.’s commitment to Missouri is unconventional.