Denver Nuggets rookie Michael Porter Jr. has a private gym that he can access whenever he wants, so the youngster has been working on his game during the NBA hiatus.
Porter has been using the work stoppage to his advantage, as his right ankle has been getting plenty of rest:
“I’ve literally been in the gym just as much as I was in Denver, which has been really good,” Michael Porter Jr. said on Altitude’s digital show, via Michael Singer of The Denver Post.
“I feel like I haven’t really lost a lot. And it’s been good for my ankle, too, because you know my ankle was still kind of sore. I’m kind of using this time as beneficial to me, getting to rest that ankle. It was a pretty bad sprain, worse than I thought. It’s been good to just be able to get my body back right and everything.”
NBA players can't train or work out at their practice facilities. Luckily for Porter, he has that court which he can use, a luxury a lot of players don't have.
The Nuggets were in third place in the Western Conference standings before the 2019-20 season got suspended. Denver had a record of 43-22.
Porter, who missed the entire 2018-19 season recovering from his back injury, appeared in 48 games for the Nuggets prior to Rudy Gobert's positive COVID-19 test.
The 21-year-old was averaging 7.5 points and 4.1 rebounds in 14.0 minutes per game while shooting 49.5 percent from the field, 42.2 percent from beyond the arc and 76.7 percent from the free-throw line.
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