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Grading The Week: Memo to Brooklyn Nets: Don’t let Michael Porter Jr. become Mikko Porter Jr.

Related Topics: Michael V Porter, Brooklyn Nets

The former Nuggets wing forward is living his best Jerami Grant life in Brooklyn, taking the bulk of the shots for a bad team and putting up career-high numbers — All-Star caliber numbers — in the process. Our old pal MPJ went into Friday night’s games averaging 25.7 points and 7.3 rebounds per game while draining 39.6% of his 3-point tries.

The Nuggets traded Porter to the Nets this summer as a salary dump. But it was one of those trades that’s working out for both sides, in hindsight: Denver was 20-6 as of Friday afternoon, the best 26-game start to a season in franchise history.