By ADRY TORRES
NEW YORK — Michael Porter Jr. has a familiar face helping ease his transition from Denver to Brooklyn.
The 6-foot-10 forward felt overwhelmed by the demands that come with playing in New York during the Nuggets’ yearly visits to face the city’s two NBA clubs.
But his reunion with Nets coach Jordi Fernandez — a former Nuggets assistant coach — has eased the 27-year-old Midwestern sharpshooter’s acclimation to the Big Apple.
“I think that has been big for me,” Porter said Tuesday. “Just coming to a new city and feeling a little bit of being overwhelmed, just to have a guy as a head coach that I am working with every day, somebody like Jordi.