{"id":239358,"date":"2021-09-29T22:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=239358"},"modified":"2021-09-29T22:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:28:52","slug":"nuggets-sign-michael-porter-jr-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-sign-michael-porter-jr-to-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets Sign Michael Porter Jr. to Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Nuggets have signed forward Michael Porter Jr. to a multi-year contract extension, President of Basketball Operations Tim Connelly<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/nuggets\/news\/nuggets-extend-michael-porter-jr-092921\"> announced today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Porter Jr., 23, had the best season of his young career in 2020-21, helping lead Denver to 47 wins in a 72-game shortened season and the three seed in the Western Conference Playoffs. In 61 games (54 starts), he averaged career-highs in points (19.0), rebounds (7.3), assists (1.1), field goal percentage (54.2%), three-point field goal percentage (44.5%) and minutes per game (31.3). He posted a career-high 39 points (8-12 3FG\u2019s), along with six rebounds, three blocks and two assists vs. Houston on Apr. 24th. He became the first player since Joel Embiid in 2017 to post those numbers in the second year of their career and the third Nugget in franchise history to make seven or more three pointers in consecutive games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can stop asking us about it now \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fGpE0c74Tz\">https:\/\/t.co\/fGpE0c74Tz<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MileHighBasketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MileHighBasketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XuRR2XoXu1\">pic.twitter.com\/XuRR2XoXu1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1443274640613273601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porter Jr. was drafted by the Nuggets with the 14th overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":239357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[1161,7868],"rumors":[135],"typology":[20,15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-239358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-michael-porter-jr-en","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-ufficiale","typology-comunicato"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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