Nuggets trading away Michael Porter Jr. proven right despite hesitancy

Denver Nuggets, Brooklyn Nets, Michael Porter Jr. | Bill Streicher-Imagn ImagesIf you hadn't watched the Denver Nuggets play basketball this season, and didn't care enough to look at the conference standings, you'd think they ruined their future by trading Michael Porter Jr. to the Nets over the summer. This discourse on social media that makes it sound like the trade was a mistake is missing the bigger point.

Porter was a good player when he was in Denver. He helped the team win a championship less than three years ago. The motivation behind a trade wasn't that he was useless, but that the Nuggets needed to move off the contract that they doled out to him. Doing so freed up $17 million in…