In what is quite possibly the most talked about injury in recent Missouri sports history, the Michael Porter, Jr. back injury is often a point of contention amongst fans. Mostly because so much behind the injury was shrouded in mystery. Mizzou signed the top overall recruit and everything seemed fine until it wasn’t. He checked out of the very first basketball game of the season and within weeks he was having microdiscectomy surgery to fix herniated discs in his back.
Porter came back to play at the end of the season but it wasn’t the same.