While Michael Porter Jr. slid to the No. 14 pick in the NBA Draft on Thursday in New York, two men in attendance to support him, Missouri coach Cuonzo Martin and Porter’s younger brother Jontay, felt at ease.
“Jontay and I were laughing,” Martin said during a Friday conference call. “Talking about different things.”
After all, they knew Porter Jr., once a candidate to go No. 1 overall, would hear his name called eventually, even if the night wasn’t going as planned. And they knew that everyone at their table in the Barclays Center’s green room — Martin, the basketball playing brothers and their parents, Lisa and Michael Porter Sr.