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Porter’s handling of their playing careers
Posted on: April 6, 2018 at 08:48:05 CT
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I’ve seen it expressed quite frequently by various MU fans that the Tigers sure didn’t get much utility from their relationship with the Porters assuming it is possibly now coming to an end. And while that is true, that is mostly a byproduct of the Porter’s own lack of utility and mis-management of their playing careers since that point. In my opinion, it has bordered on being a disaster.
Consider….
Michael Porter Sr – made the unlikely transition from Christian rapper to women’s basketball assistant to signing a multi-year contract as a men’s assistant making him one of the highest paid men’s assistant coaches in the country in his first season, all via the opportunities created by his sons. To do so, he separated his family and moved half of them across the country and attached himself to a coach that was fired after year one before he even had an opportunity to coach either of his sons that had committed to him. So he went back home and re-united his family and signed a second multi-year contract as a men’s assistant at MU. This time it appears poised to again be a one year arrangement. So despite signing two multiyear $1 million plus contracts his professional career as a men’s basketball assistant may end with 2 seasons and less than $800k in salary earnings.
Michael Porter Jr – At this time last year he was positioned not just as the potential #1 overall pick in the NBA draft but considered the most #1 of picks from the last several drafts. He waited until the day of the first game of the season to determine he was injured and elected to have surgery, missing the entire regular season. In the interim had he hired Mike Alden as a personal consultant I am not sure the public relations handling of his injury status could have gone worse. He managed to return for the postseason, looked terrible, and lost both games he played in. He is now most likely not a top 5 pick in the upcoming draft and has considerable questions marks in multiple phases of his game as well as questions about his durability and toughness.
Jontay Porter – Elected to reclassify and bypass his senior year of high school for the opportunity to play college ball with his brother, which then didn’t happen. Under normal circumstances he should be concluding a dominant high school season in which he stepped out from his brother’s shadow and would be considered a top 5-10 caliber at worst player among his class with sure fire NBA lottery type expectations. Instead he is hoping to land in the back end of the first round of the NBA draft, and it appears if he can get assurances he will be then he will act on those assurances. Assuming things play in his favor, he likely has a G-League experience in his future.
I hope it all works out great for each and all of them. But collectively they have managed to turn what was once a sure fire path of professional basketball careers into a situation where it isn’t really unlikely at all that 5-7 years from now none of them are in the NBA. At every turn, they seem to take the most short term approach available despite having no external pressures forcing them down that short term path. There is at least an equal chance of that as there is to either or both of them becoming stars in the NBA, which is sort of a shame to watch develop.
Edited by FIJItiger at 08:51:15 on 04/06/18
Consider….
Michael Porter Sr – made the unlikely transition from Christian rapper to women’s basketball assistant to signing a multi-year contract as a men’s assistant making him one of the highest paid men’s assistant coaches in the country in his first season, all via the opportunities created by his sons. To do so, he separated his family and moved half of them across the country and attached himself to a coach that was fired after year one before he even had an opportunity to coach either of his sons that had committed to him. So he went back home and re-united his family and signed a second multi-year contract as a men’s assistant at MU. This time it appears poised to again be a one year arrangement. So despite signing two multiyear $1 million plus contracts his professional career as a men’s basketball assistant may end with 2 seasons and less than $800k in salary earnings.
Michael Porter Jr – At this time last year he was positioned not just as the potential #1 overall pick in the NBA draft but considered the most #1 of picks from the last several drafts. He waited until the day of the first game of the season to determine he was injured and elected to have surgery, missing the entire regular season. In the interim had he hired Mike Alden as a personal consultant I am not sure the public relations handling of his injury status could have gone worse. He managed to return for the postseason, looked terrible, and lost both games he played in. He is now most likely not a top 5 pick in the upcoming draft and has considerable questions marks in multiple phases of his game as well as questions about his durability and toughness.
Jontay Porter – Elected to reclassify and bypass his senior year of high school for the opportunity to play college ball with his brother, which then didn’t happen. Under normal circumstances he should be concluding a dominant high school season in which he stepped out from his brother’s shadow and would be considered a top 5-10 caliber at worst player among his class with sure fire NBA lottery type expectations. Instead he is hoping to land in the back end of the first round of the NBA draft, and it appears if he can get assurances he will be then he will act on those assurances. Assuming things play in his favor, he likely has a G-League experience in his future.
I hope it all works out great for each and all of them. But collectively they have managed to turn what was once a sure fire path of professional basketball careers into a situation where it isn’t really unlikely at all that 5-7 years from now none of them are in the NBA. At every turn, they seem to take the most short term approach available despite having no external pressures forcing them down that short term path. There is at least an equal chance of that as there is to either or both of them becoming stars in the NBA, which is sort of a shame to watch develop.
Edited by FIJItiger at 08:51:15 on 04/06/18
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