Minutes before Missouri’s first official men’s basketball practice, freshman forward Jontay Porter found himself off the court, out of his comfort zone and tumbling to the ground.
The amiable 17-year-old walked onto the Mizzou Arena floor, and before he could step inside the court’s lines, freshman guard C.J. Roberts started defending him. Roberts squatted and pressed his body against Porter, who was near a set of folding chairs. Porter threw up a fadeaway shot that missed, and his momentum carried him backward, over a chair that fell to the ground with him. When the younger Porter brother on this hyped Mizzou team stood up, he called a foul.