“I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves,” Nuggets coach Mike Malone said earlier this season. “… If you’re really going to understand and look at what he’s doing, from a medical standpoint, the brace he wears every night and for him to go out and do what he’s doing − if you just take a step back, it’s incredible.”
On April 19, Michael Porter was in a courtroom instead of at practice with his teammates so he could speak on behalf of Coban at the sentencing hearing.
“It has not been easy for him,” Malone told reporters the next night after Porter had 19 points and eight rebounds in Denver’s 114-103 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of the first-round series. “That’s why I give him credit, because he’s carrying so much in his heart and on his mind. For him to go out there and do the job that he’s doing, it speaks to how much strength that young man has.”
By cobramagazine.com
May16,2024
