After lifting his team to its first two-game winning streak of the season , Michael Porter Jr. missed Thursday’s matchup against the Utah Jazz.

Porter sat out the back end of Thursday’s back-to-back with lower back injury management. Rookie Drake Powell also missed Thursday’s game with left knee injury management.

It’s the first time this season the Nets used such designation for Porter, who has dealt with several back injuries during his career.

Porter missed the second game of a back-to-back on Nov. 3 against the Minnesota Timberwolves, but that DNP happened for personal reasons.

Entering Friday, the injury-plagued Porter missed four games in the 2025-26 NBA season. That comes after missing just five regular-season games in 2024-25 and only one in 2023-24.

Before then, he missed

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