Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. is embracing a new role following his trade from the Denver Nuggets. The 6-foot-10 forward enters the 2025-26 campaign as a lead offensive option for the first time in his career. After years in Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray's shadows, the former No. 1 recruit is relishing the opportunity to be more than a role player.

“In the NBA, if you wanna last, you have to be able to put your ego aside and take on a role, which is a lot of guys' problem. So I was able to do that, knowing we have the best player in the world in Nikola, knowing how lethal Jamal and Nikola’s two-man game was,” Porter Jr. said on 7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony . “But that confidence and feeling like I can make any shot on the court, that never left. So to go from tha

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