On Thursday, the NBA schedule for the upcoming 2025-26 season was formally launched, and Brooklyn Nets followers bought their first probability to see when their group might be in motion this season. The large story of the offseason for the Nets, exterior of the 5 first spherical draft picks they drafted, was their commerce of Cam Johnson to the Denver Nuggets in change for Michael Porter Jr.
With the schedule now out, it has been revealed when Porter Jr. might be returning to face the group that drafted him again in 2018: January 29.
Nuggets followers will seemingly give Porter Jr. a heat reception that night as they welcome again a key member of their 2023 NBA championship group.
Porter Jr. at instances pissed off the fanbase together with his lack of need to move the ball, incomes him the nickname Michael “By no means Swing The Rock” Porter Jr.; nonetheless, he additionally had loads of big moments in a Denver jersey, and the group in all probability would not have gained that championship with out him.
An attention-grabbing transfer for the Nets
Michael Porter Jr. figures to have a near-unlimited inexperienced mild this yr as he joins a Nets group firmly entrenched in a years-long rebuild.
The Nets had seen Cam Johnson’s identify run by means of the commerce rumor mill incessantly all through the previous few seasons, and now that the transfer has lastly come to move, Brooklyn can focus extra on its younger expertise, together with the 5 (!) gamers they drafted within the first spherical this previous June.
The Nets determine to be among the many league’s worst groups this yr as they combine their a number of younger gamers into the fold and look to proceed to develop a few of the gamers who confirmed flashes of one thing particular.
Whereas Porter Jr. will not be candidate primary for stabilizing vets you’d need to have in your locker room, he’ll present some championship expertise to a Nets group sorely missing in that space.
In any case, the Nets’ season is slated to get underway on October 22 towards the Charlotte Hornets.