Should the Philadelphia 76ers make a run at Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. in the offseason?
In the NBA arguably more than any other American sports league, the playoffs have a tendency to consume any relevant regular-season context about a team or an individual. It's working to Michael Porter Jr.'s disadvantage this time. Porter chose to wear the blame Sunday night for Denver's early exit from the playoffs after Game 7 against the Timberwolves. “This was a terrible series,” Porter said after shooting 3 for 12 in a 98-90 Game 7 loss.
Frustration is really the only word that makes sense to describe the feeling surrounding the Denver Nuggets. After losing Game 7 to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference Semifinals, the defending NBA champions' dreams of going back-to-back are no more. The Nuggets are now forced to go down a path where they will need to once again become the hunters instead of being the hunted, and this loss to the Timberwolves is significant for more reasons than one. The Nuggets had done a great job of masking their secondary problems alongside Jokic all season.
No | Player | P |
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0 | SG | |
5 | SG | |
31 | PF | |
21 | PG | |
50 | PF | |
9 | SG | |
30 | C | |
7 | PG | |
15 | C | |
6 | C | |
11 | SF | |
27 | PG | |
22 | PF | |
24 | SG | |
1 | SF | |
3 | SG | |
4 | PF | |
8 | SG |