Brooklyn’s new sharp shooter is here in Brooklyn — getting work in and sharing his journey at the same time
After weeks of waiting on deadlines to pass, trades to process, planes to board, Michael Porter Jr. has touched down in Brooklyn. He’s got a new vlog out to prove it as well.
The NBA champ didn’t waste time getting after, Porter Jr. went in to practice at HSS the day after he landed in New York.
However, Porter Jr.’s time in the building started with a tour rather than shots. He and a guide visited the team’s practice courts and weight room. As he entered the practice courts, he let out a long whistle, impressed with what he was seeing, not just the views of the New York skyline but two practice courts, twice as many as he had noted he had had to work with in Denver.
“I’m about to be in here all the time,” said MPJ continuing the tour.
At the final stop in the Nets locker room. Porter Jr.’s locker could be seen smack in the middle.
“That means something,” the guide said.
“No it don’t,” Porter Jr. joked back.
After a balanced breakfast, Porter Jr. then hit the weights and hardwood. The sharpshooter could be seen getting in some upper body work before moving onto the courts to do some light dribbling, finishing, and shooting drills. In the latter, he hit a team drill record, according to the vlog.
The episode’s latter half then showed MPJ taking all else Brooklyn has to offer, starting with its views.
“I’m a Brooklyn boy now,” he said while gazing toward lower Manhattan. “I still need a tour guide to show me around though, fasho.”
Then after some apartment searching alongside a colleague he referred to as “Grape” and manager Nicodemus Christopher, Porter Jr. included more footage of himself on the court, going through some more high intensity drills. At one point, MPJ asked Christopher what he thought so far about New York. “Everybody is detail-oriented, everybody has a sense of urgency,” he replied.
“I’m not even gonna lie, they got me working probably as hard as I’ve ever worked,” he said. “But I’m making progress. I’m excited man, this is an amazing opportunity. The staff over here is great. They’re getting me right already. We’ve in here probably four hours this morning. But we getting better, so that’s all you can ask for.”
After a walk around Brooklyn Bridge park, a Willem Dafoe style drip check, and dinner at Tao, a popular downtown dining spot for NBA players, Porter Jr. wrapped things up. And while we won’t see him in a Brooklyn Nets uniform for sometime, we should be able to expect more content like this from him soon as Porter Jr.’s said he’d continue to upload vlogs going forward.