Porter tried to fight his thoughts for …

Porter tried to fight his thoughts for much of the night but struggled to fend off a roller-coaster ride of emotions that had been set off by his first experience of the business side of the NBA. “It was kind of devastating, but you know, you’ve got a game in two minutes,” Porter said after the game. “You kind of just have to snap out of it. It was, for my first time, it was tough. The first three quarters, I kept thinking about it. It’s not a good feeling. But you gotta keep going, you gotta persevere.”