THE Brooklyn fillets apparently don’t resent Michael Porter Jr’s controversial comments about the WNBA.
Porter Jr. said the organization told him to “stay away” from those topics during interviews.
“Being on the Internet for anything other than basketball, I feel like it’s a summer thing,” he said. said on Lonzo Ball’s podcast “Ball in the Family. “But no, certainly, even the organization, we’ve had conversations, they would appreciate it if I stayed away from certain topics, you know what I mean? That’s why the WNBA is such a sensitive topic these days. So I try to be aware of that.”
Porter Jr., who is averaging 24.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Nets (2-12), recently said he would have dominated WNBA opponents because he played against them when he was younger.
“I’m probably going to 8th grade because I have real experience in this area,” Porter said. “I played against my sisters. They were playing at the University of Missouri and I was still a young kid. They had me play on the scout team and they had a few WNBA players on their team like Sophie Cunningham and a few others. I was in 7th or 8th grade going crazy. So I have real life experience. It’s just a difference and I wish it would stop being a conversation because it should be common sense. I appreciate common sense sometimes I feel like he’s a little lost.”
Lonzo Ball, a guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers, bought into Porter’s position.
“I say this as respectfully as possible, but Lonzo Ball, 9th year in the WNBA, is going crazy,” Ball said, referring to himself in the third person.
“In 9th grade, I was over 6 feet tall and I did a dunk. I go through the lane. No girl in the WNBA does that. I go in the back, throw up, looking like Jordan over there.”
In October, former NBA guard Patrick Beverly Tweeted that the WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces “could beat (an) NBA team.”
