Michael Porter Jr.

American basketball player (born 1998)

Michael Lamar Porter Jr., also known as "MPJ", is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Missouri Tigers. Porter was ranked as one of the top prospects in the class of 2017. He was selected 14th overall by the Denver Nuggets in the 2018 NBA draft, winning his first NBA championship with them in 2023. After six seasons with Denver, Porter was traded to the Nets in 2025.