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Only a junior, Columbia basketball star Michael Porter has Mizzou’s and KU’s attention

This is a Michael Porter moment. It is an early morning in late May, and you have stepped inside a large community center in suburban Minneapolis. Porter, a 16-year-old from Columbia, saunters through a side door, his lithe, 6-foot-9 frame drifting across the floor and sleepily finding its way to a layup line.

Just hours earlier, Porter awoke at the crack of dawn and caught a flight to Minneapolis, where his MOKAN Elite AAU team was scheduled to play in a prestigious Nike event. Porter is tired, operating on limited sleep, and there’s a weekend of basketball to be played.