After lifting his workforce to its first two-game profitable streak of the season, Michael Porter Jr. missed Thursday’s matchup towards the Utah Jazz.
Porter sat out the again finish of Thursday’s back-to-back with decrease again damage administration. Rookie Drake Powell additionally missed Thursday’s recreation with left knee damage administration.
Thursday’s standing report pic.twitter.com/teSlqHpOfM
It’s the primary time this season the Nets used such designation for Porter, who has handled a number of again accidents throughout his profession.
Porter missed the second recreation of a back-to-back on Nov. 3 towards the Minnesota Timberwolves, however that DNP occurred for private causes.
Getting into Friday, the injury-plagued Porter missed 4 video games within the 2025-26 NBA season. That comes after lacking simply 5 regular-season video games in 2024-25 and just one in 2023-24.
Earlier than then, he missed 213 of 329 whole NBA regular-season video games (together with a complete rookie season after present process second again surgical procedure) since being drafted No. 14 general by the Denver Nuggets within the 2018 draft.
Thursday’s DNP comes after two of Porter’s greatest video games of the season: 35 factors, seven rebounds and 4 assists towards the Charlotte Hornets on Monday and 33 factors, 10 rebounds and fives assists towards the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.
Porter is averaging 25.3 factors, 7.5 rebounds and three.2 assists in his first season with the Nets.
And rookie Powell is averaging 6.5 factors, 1.8 rebounds and a pair of.0 assists in 19.1 minutes per recreation this season.
