“I used to be very upset and mad that I didn’t feel like I was playing out there the way I wanted to play. I always looked at that brace as a downfall,” the Nuggets sharpshooter told The Post. “Journaling made me thankful for it.”
A brace he wears on his left leg is the byproduct of the three back surgeries that have hindered various junctures of his career. Porter hated it. Then he learned to live with it by writing about it.
Especially while facing an obstacle as fundamental as staying healthy. Porter signed his five-year max extension with the Nuggets in September 2021, worth up to $207 million. That December, he underwent his third back surgery dating back to 2017, when he was a freshman at Missouri and the No. 1 prospect in the country.
Porter Sr. noticed his son’s increased dedication to diet, rest and other regimens. He coached Porter Jr. at Missouri, so he had already seen up-close what the first recovery process looked like. This felt different. Even immediately after the third surgery in Dallas, Porter Sr. remembers his son feeling better physically and drawing more optimism from that. “I don’t know, if I had been in Mike’s shoes, if I would have been as resilient as he was,” Porter Sr. said.
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