One week ago, when the Los Angeles Lakers narrowly escaped Houston with a win, future Hall of Famer LeBron James made it clear that he had respect for Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. as a basketball player.
A week later, James is showing that he has interest in Porter as a person, as well, and heโs using both his media interviews and his massive Twitter platform (with more than 50 million followers) to do so.
After Porterโs buzzer-beating 3-pointer on Wednesday night in Washington, a controversy erupted when the Wizardsโ TV broadcast analyst, Glenn Consor, made a mistaken reference to Porterโs late father.
โYouโve got to give credit,โ Consor said on the air. โKevin Porter Jr., like his dad, pulled that trigger right at the right time.โ
Porter Jr.โs father, Bryan Kevin Porter Sr., pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in a shooting death of a 14-year-old girl in 1993. He was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison. Porter Sr. died in 2004 after being shot in a South…