Michael Porter Jr. had more to say on the WNBA amid Sophie Cunningham controversy

Jeremy Beren

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To be in the brain of Michael Porter Jr. Must be a fascinating thing.

Earlier this week, Porter and Lonzo Ball had a podcast discussion about whether a team of NBA bench players could take down a team of top WNBA players. Ball, now playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, said he could have beaten that hypothetical team as a freshman in high school.

But Porter, now a star on the Brooklyn Nets, went a step further (as he is wont to do). He told Ball that he could have beaten a team of W stars when he was in eighth grade.

"I have real experience doing this," Porter said on Ball in the Family. "I played my sisters. They played at the University of Missouri and I was still a young kid. They had me playing on the scout team and they had a few WNBA players on their team like Sophie Cunningham and a couple others. I was in the 7th or 8th grade going crazy."

Porter: The Nets warned me about certain topics

The bemusement -- if not blowback -- has been swift.

Internet sleuths quickly deduced that while Porter and Indiana Fever guard Cunningham both played for the University of Missouri, Porter was a sophomore in high school when Cunningham was a freshman.

What is even stranger -- if not funnier -- about the situation is that Porter has heard an earful from the Nets about comments in this vein. He made this revelation on -- you guessed it -- Ball in the Family.

"They would appreciate if I steered clear of certain topics," Porter said. "The WNBA thing, that topic is so sensitive nowadays, so I try to be aware of that. For the most part I'm chilling, I'm not trying to say nothing crazy no more."

It would seem then that Nets leadership is the latest to learn that whatever Michael Porter Jr. Thinks, he ends up saying.

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