Michael Porter Jr. Net Worth

What is Michael Porter Jr.'s Net Worth?

Michael Porter Jr. is an American professional basketball player who has a net worth of $40 million. Michael Porter Jr. plays for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, and he previously played for the Denver Nuggets from 2018 to 2025. In 2023, Porter helped the Nuggets win their first-ever NBA championship.

Contracts, Salaries & Career Earnings

Michael Porter Jr. entered the NBA in 2018 as the 14th overall pick by the Denver Nuggets, signing a four-year rookie contract worth $15.4 million. After overcoming early back injuries, he broke out during the 2020–21 season, which set the stage for a massive extension. In September 2021, Porter signed a five-year, $172.5 million maximum rookie-scale extension with Denver, with incentives that could push the total value to $207 million. The deal averages over $30 million per season and secures him as one of the franchise's cornerstone players alongside Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray. By the end of the 2025–26 season, Porter Jr. will have earned more than $100 million in career salary, with his total projected NBA earnings expected to exceed $200 million over the life of his current contract.

Early Life and High School

Michael Porter Jr. was born on June 29, 1998, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has seven siblings, including Jontay, who also became an NBA player. As a teenager, Porter attended Father Tolton Catholic High School in Columbia, Missouri for three years, and then Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington for his senior year. Porter was a star basketball player in high school, leading both Father Tolton and Nathan Hale to 3A state championship titles. He also played in the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League in the summer of 2016, and led his team Mokan Elite to the Nike EYBL Peach Jam championship. Porter finished his high school career as a five-star recruit.

Collegiate Career

In the summer of 2016, Porter committed to attending the University of Washington. However, after head coach Lorenzo Romar was fired, Porter chose to attend the University of Missouri, where his father served as an assistant coach and his brother Jontay also played basketball. Porter ultimately had a curtailed collegiate career after he suffered a lower back injury in the first half of Missouri's season opener in 2017. Following surgery and a period of recovery, he returned for the quarterfinals of the SEC tournament in March of 2018. Porter subsequently played in the first round of the NCAA tournament. After that, he announced he was forgoing his final three college seasons to enter the 2018 NBA draft.

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Denver Nuggets

In the 2018 NBA draft, Porter was chosen by the Denver Nuggets as the 14th overall pick. He had a bumpy start to his NBA career due to another back surgery that caused him to miss the entirety of the 2018-19 season. Porter finally made his debut for the Nuggets on Halloween in 2019, when he came off the bench to record 15 points and four rebounds in a loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. He finished the regular season with averages of 9.3 points and 4.7 rebounds per game as the Nuggets advanced to the playoffs. There, the team fell to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Conference Finals. Porter went on to have a very strong season in 2020-21, posting career-high averages of 19 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. In a late-season win over the Houston Rockets, he scored a career-high 39 points. Back in the playoffs, the Nuggets were routed by the Phoenix Suns in the Conference Semifinals. Porter followed that success with a disappointing 2021-22 season, as a third back surgery ended his season after just nine games.

Porter came back from his surgery in fine form for the 2022-23 season. Playing in 62 games, he recorded averages of 17.4 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. The Nuggets finished first in their division and conference and returned to the playoffs, where they defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves, Phoenix Suns, and Los Angeles Lakers en route to the NBA Finals. In Game 5 of the Finals, Porter posted 16 points and 13 rebounds to help the Nuggets beat the Miami Heat 94-89 and clinch the NBA championship, the first-ever for the Nuggets. He had another strong season in 2023-24, with averages of 16.7 points and seven rebounds in 81 games. In the playoffs, the Nuggets fell to the Timberwolves in the Conference Semifinals. Porter concluded his time in Denver in the 2024-25 season, averaging 18.2 points and seven rebounds in 77 games. For the second consecutive year, the Nuggets were eliminated in the Conference Semifinals in the playoffs, this time to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Brooklyn Nets

In the summer of 2025, Porter was traded to the Brooklyn Nets.

National Team Career

Before joining the NBA, Porter played for the United States men's national under-18 team at the FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship. In the 2016 tournament in Valdivia, Chile, he helped the team win the gold medal.

Personal Life

In 2017, Porter dated actress Madison Pettis.

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