Michael Porter Jr. came to the Brooklyn Nets as a salary dump from the Denver Nuggets last summer, with the Nets acquiring Denver's 2032 unprotected first-round pick as part of the transaction. Porter had spent his entire career with the Nuggets, winning a championship with them in 2023. He also got to the playoffs in each season in Denver. Porter may have understood coming to Brooklyn meant completely different circumstances on the court, but he didn't seem to be too thrilled about life off it, as he expressed in an interview with N3ON. “My first reaction, I was sick,” Porter said. “Because first of all, I knew Brooklyn wasn’t a good team at the time and I hated New York. New York is my least favorite city I have ever been in. I always hated New York because it’s so claustrophobic. I’m from Missouri in the middle of nowhere where you get to move around and New York’s the opposite so I hated that I was traded there. But then, I got there and know my way around, it’s lit! New York is crackin!…