The Brooklyn Nets apparently aren’t feeling Michael Porter Jr’s controversial comments about the WNBA.
Porter Jr. said the organization told him to “stay clear” of such topics while doing interviews.
“To be on the internet for anything else other than basketball, I feel like that’s a summertime thing,” he said on Lonzo Ball’s podcast “Ball in the Family. ”But no, definitely, even the organization, we’ve had conversations, they would appreciate if I stayed clear of certain topics, you know what I mean? That’s why the WNBA thing is such a sensitive topic nowadays. So I try to be aware of that."
Porter Jr., who is averaging 24.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Nets (2-12), recently said that he would have dominated WNBA opponents because he played against them when he was younger.
“I’m probably going with 8th grade because I have real experience doing this,” Porter said. “I played my sisters. They played at The University of Missouri and I was still a young kid. They had me playing on the scout team and they had a few WNBA players on their team like, Sophie Cunningham and a couple others. I was in the 7th or 8th grade going crazy. So, I have real life experience. It’s just a difference and I wish this would stop being a conversation because it should be common sense. I appreciate common sense. I feel sometimes that’s lost a little bit.”
Lonzo Ball, a Cleveland Cavaliers guard, signed on to Porter’s take.
“I mean this as respectfully as possible, but 9th-grade Lonzo Ball in the WNBA is going crazy,” Ball said, referring to himself in the third person.
“In 9th grade, I was over six feet and dunking. I’m coming through the lane. No girl in the WNBA is doing that. I’m going backdoor, throwing it up, looking like Jordan out there.”
In October, former NBA guard Patrick Beverly Tweeted that the WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces “could beat [an] NBA team.”
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