Thanks for bringing this back Mike 🫡 would love to hear Jamal on to talk about the last 2 years you guys had together from injured to champs. Would also like to hear AG/KCP on their perspective on coming to Denver.

Thanks for sharing that bit of your testimony about searching for truth. I had a similar journey I grew up Christian but decided to pursue truth and look at all the different religions and came to realize Jesus really is the way and the truth. God bless brother!

I'm glad your bringing the series back! Great quotes "I'm trying to be a man of integrity and grow, I just feel social media is a hindrance to that. "MPJ 14:20. My advice: Be the best person you can be on and off the court. Don't worry about others. Place your goals high, everything else will fall into its place.

I'm glad he acknowledged and performed his role as best as he can. That's why he's a champion. YEAH MIKE!!!

I had No idea he was a Christian!! Super shocked!! But that’s amazing!!! And he said a lot of things about gratitude and being thankful for what we have & how when you have money, u get used to things. It would be great to walk away from them for a little while and then we can appreciate them all over again. I also liked how when you’re not sure about yourself with God, u seek other peoples approval which is sad

MIKE MIKE MIKE MIKE MIKE !!!! 🤩

You are the man MPJ and a huge part of why the Nugs won the title.. Love your attitude/perspectives on life also, big years coming for you!

God bless you man, proud of you for walking out the faith

Mike, I am constantly amazed that you are playing. Many people would have quit after a single back surgery. Definitely would have after 2, but after 3... truly amazing. Nuggets definitely were the perfect situation, since they didn't need you day one. Kudos Champ.

Thanks for the podcast MPJ. Appreciate you being open about God and the temptations you face along your journey.

Yay your back! What a nice surprise! 🎉 Such a lovely episode very candid & heartfelt! I am excited to see you drop more videos! 🤗 May the Lord bless you! 🙏

Congrats, Mike! Way to help bring Denver it's first ever NBA Championship!!!

Great to see you both! Blessings and prayers over the Porter family. Much love from (and in) Denver! MPJ - if you haven’t, please try yoga! It saved my career (when nothing else worked) from the same back issue after a horrific car accident. Your best days are still ahead! 🙏🏾

You a KING for not getting vaxxed. Way to think for yourself and not fold into the pressure from the NBA and society. Stay vigilant!

MIKE! I truly hope that you continue with your podcast. Many many things resonated with me with your discussions. I love and appreciate your deeper thinking about life and God. Regarding COVID vaccine, first thanks for not being afraid to ask the hard questions. I’m in the Army so it was mandatory for me to get it. I love my country and would die defending it, but before joining, I’ve never wanted or needed to take even the yearly flue shot and was completely fine. I feel after taking the COVID vaccine, I’ve experienced migraines that I’ve never had before. Please 🙏🏽 keep generating more meaningful dialogues about our society today and most importantly spreading God’s will. ❤ our family will keep attending as many games as we can because I’ve never seen a team like you all have now. What an inspiration!

I would love if you invited any of your team mates. AG and Jamal even more.

He is so grounded and genuine. Lovely to see

Would love to see your parents on the show!!

Been binge-ing all your podcasts after the NELK episode and just wanna say you're truly a great role model for all the kids out there, regardless of hoop dreams or not. Keep on doing you bro, big things will happen!

In response to your question - I think the way the pandemic was handled created so much damaging. People were forced to do so many things against their will, so many people suffered because of the ridiculous measures that were enforced. And we can now see that countries who took a different approach, such as Sweden for example, did not do worse overall than countries that implemented draconian measures. A very sad and manipulative time, unfortunately l.

This episode is great. MPJ is a smart dude who says stuff worth listening to.

I did not get the vaccine , I have no problem with people who did , I only could do what was best for me. I felt like I needed more Research on it. My dad died from Covid and he had all 3 shots but he was in a retirement village and it was required. Still don’t know if the vaccine helped or made it worse , I guess we will never know . I miss him dearly 😢

I just visited back home from where I came from, a third-world country. And I feel so rich. People really have it worse than the middle or lower class in the US, overseas. It really changes your perspective. Recommend everyone to visit a third-world.

Lol MPJ just casually slid in “maybe in the future on a different team my assists would go up 😢” but dope podcast MIKE!

My respect for him grew immensely. Great humble guy who is willing to share his faith in Jesus and didn’t get vaccinated

Beared Michael goated. About to make All Star Game this coming season. We about to have our starting 5 getting to the ASG. I want to see AG on the damn ASG, i want to see Jamal being on the ASG, i want to see MPJ getting in, I want our buy KCP making it. I WANT ALL MY NUGGETS ON THE ALL STAR GAME. WE ARE THE DAMN CHAMPIONS MAN. We deserves that ASG

So happy for the return of Curious Mike!! Both my 76 year-old mother and I have a history of working in pharmaceutical research, so we are very familiar with the normal approval process/timetable for new drugs. There simply is no substitute for time. It takes time to test drugs through multiple generations of different animals (ex. mice, then larger mammals, eventually non-human primates, then VOLUNTARY human test subjects). These studies are required to be consecutive, so if there’s a safety signal in rabbits, then testing stops and they go back to the drawing board without harming larger mammals or humans. Knowing all of this and knowing that Moderna had brought exactly ZERO products to market since 2010 (all safety trials were failures), this was a hard pass for our family. There was a lot of pressure from doctors, employers, schools, etc., but we stood firm. It was the best decision for our family. We all eventually got the Vid, but it was no worse that a typical cold for any of us.

Appreciate how real you are on the podcast. Way to represent Jesus and Mid Missouri. I think it might be cool to do an episode with Tim Tebow. His professional career didn't quite go according to plan, but it seems like he has found his purpose and calling outside of professional sports. I think it would also be cool to hear from Jontay.

I absolutely love your podcast and can’t stop listening! Thanks for all that you do!

I think DJ would be a great teammate to interview. He sounds like a very wise man with a lot insight that would make for a fun guest. ✌️

Hi! Welcome back!! Congratulations on winning the Championship. 💛🏀💙🏆 Thanks for your transparency. Regarding the vaccinations, I am vehemently against them. Looking forward to more episodes, and watching you from my season seats above the tunnel. wishing you good health. Have a great summer... what's left of it!

“The gospel is that I am so sinful that Jesus had to die for me, yet so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. I can’t feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone.” - Tim Keller

One of my favorite shows….seeing your growth is amazing💛

Respect you and your game to the max! Hope you have a great and healthy year.

Oooo that’s a great question! God works in mysterious ways! I got out in the military 2019 before I got out that’s when I surrendered my life onto Him seriously again. And when I moved back to my hometown. COVID happened! And I personally felt called not to get it. But if I would’ve stayed in the military it would’ve been forced on me! So I’m happy that God called me out of it.

Surprised at this level of discussion from an a nba player Thank you to mike and your beautiful sister for an episode to keep me up as I drive home from work Bless you both

Love listening to you Mike. NBA chamption Michael Porter Jr! Appreciate you giving detailed, thoughtful and fun answers! As of covid questions, my aunt wasn't vaccinated and had very hard time with her lung in a hospital and had to use that breathing machine. She's fine now. The other family vaccinated fast after that and noone was ill as severe. The numbers show that more people who got hospitalized were unvaccinated, and more people died from covid if unvaccinated. People have been to resilient with fighting against smallpox, polio, malaria after the vaccines have been invented, and so many peoples lives were lost before them so I think vaccine is a testament to the humanity and it's ability to work around difficulties the nature throws at us

Anxiety is such a real thing. Until you experience it yourself.. you will always look at others like they are “crazy” like you said. As someone who has an anxiety disorder, but also has high faith in God, it’s still so hard to navigate. I truly wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.

So glad your back🙏🏽👏

MIKE KNOWS ABOUT THE MEMES 🤣🤣🤣🤣

YO!!!! Interview Jordan Peterson. ❤️‍🩹 love this one.

Not me missing the team, watching Finals videos at 7am and seeing this notification pop up! 🙈😍🥳

Yesssir he’s back !!!

I would love to see and episode with Andy Mineo!

MPJ not looking like a college kid anymore. Definitely got that grown ass man vibe now. Love to see it. Pray he gets that fucking brace off his leg so he can be unlocked like Rock Lee!

Great pod!!

Very interesting interview.

Block out the negativity, people hate because they’re miserable in their own lives. Your a star athlete, keep you head up, don’t let awful people bring you down. Go nuggets

Would love to hear from your parents as your guests. How was your spirituality developed within your family? Are all of your siblings believers? Etc.

Let it fly Mike!

Yeah Mike! Glad Mike is Back!

Hey Mike that vaccine thing was wild. I'm a final year med student and we had to get the vaccine if we wanted to do our rotations at the hospital in 2021. And they told me if I didn't take it, I would take longer to graduate. The pressure was on (felt so stressed and I don't like people pressuring me to something i don't want to do). But God was with me. I showed up to my rotations and no one asked me for proof of vaccination even onto this day. The NBA must have been more pressuring, how did you survive?

Answer; 1 of 2 in my family that did not take any shot, and still feel proud about my decision of taking thee holistic approach during that tough time in history.

yesss..mikes podcast!!!

CHAMP 🏆

Great episode!! What’s everyone favorite Bible verse?! Psalms 18:16 is mine!

Interesting to hear that you were home schooled. All for safe vaccines but the emergency use authorization route makes this vaccines even more troublesome than other vaccines. Definitely should not have been mandated and the censoring of alternate perspectives and data than went against the narrative or was at least a question worth asking was not a science based approach. You have to be willing to hear alternate information to be able to make informed decisions.

Kudos for being your true self, speaking your truth and not being a character to get attention and popularity or hype.

I respect and envy the fact that you chose not to get it. A lot of us in my field (healthcare) are forced to get it or lose our careers. I honor people either way regardless of what path they took because we were all doing the best we knew how while the “Trust the science” experts were literally lying to us! (New cover up evidence released by Taibbi and others just this week smh) There are protocols to help reduce / rid the body of the spike protein that your teammates with regrets might wanna look into if they haven’t. Continued strength and health to you all. I hope you like playing with the Nuggets and have a great career here! And def don’t worry about the sad haters who are just projecting out of their own sense of jealousy or ineptitude. Keep growing and thriving, yall 💫⚒️🏆

I definitely think you did the right thing regarding the vaccine because I also hear people who regret getting it and I myself never got it and I did just fine and still are doing just fine I think you should get AG on here or Jamal I would love to see them ❤

After your Taylor rooks interview I was definitely waiting for your videos to start coming back

My guy growing the beard !!! 💪🏽

Big Mike!!! Love you bro

Hey, Mike. I admire your openness. May this was not you were trying to convey. But I was kind of taken aback when you said that people should explore and try to find their own religion. I don’t think you believe this but I kind of heard it like the is more than one way instead Jesus being the only way.

Exactly, you are best shooter in the NBA, don't ever question that!

Wish u all the best from small village in Serbia. There was some people i know and in the neighborhood who died who got it and who didnt got it and some people who wasnt sick but die couple days right after getting vaccinated from blood clot or some other reason they said. Im talking about people i know not about what can be heard on internet. So i decided to not take it if i as healthy, capable man would die from that flu than everyone is in trouble. Eventually i got a C flu and got over it in similar way like any other.

Was an awesome episode. Greetings from Hungary.

Hello Michael! First off congratulations🥳 Second I’m so glad you’re bringing curious mike back because I don’t watch sports so it’s nice to see this side you! Regarding the vaccine I too didn’t get it and I haven’t got covid. 🙏🏽 I think the vaccine was used as a quick solution because we had never been stuck in the house for so long. But recently I was accepted into dental hygiene school and they’re requiring it or I can’t get in 😩

I definitely saw you at the lobby once in Orlando 😂 I wasn’t there for you though. I was having dinner at one of the restaurants in the hotel and chilled at the lobby afterward with my friend

Well spoken Mike!

MIKE MIKE

What’s your favorite Bible story and why? How does it resonate with you and how do you apply it to your personal and professional life?

Welcome back ahch

He’s BAAAAAACK🔥

Need to have CB ob a podcast since yall grew up in same region of country and played for same AAU program and Also both come from Big time Bball families where Mom was the best player. Be a great episode

It's a really good idea to use your sisters as interviewers

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Love this!!

Curious questions: what's beyond the universe? The universe is continuously expanding, possibly I personally think way beyond that, but what exists beyond it? I personally believe consciousness is God. We are all a part of God exploring Himself, and the big bang is God's realization of being, the translation of Yaweh the Hebrew name of God is "I am", but that being said all going out us the event horizon of the "big bang" my question is what Mike thinks lies beyond it? I'm 21 from Eugene Mo. I've been a Mpj fan since I was in high-school, and a nuggets fan before I knew who mpj was. I'd really appreciate my question being attempted at answered because there is now way any of us could really know for sure.

great video, big fan, but donte divincenzo from the 2018 draft won a ring in 2021 with the bucks even though he didnt play in the finals

I had to get the booster due to my career. We were in the position of getting the vaccine or being separated from the military. I’ve gotten vaccines the general public never will and we already have mandatory vaccines like flu.

Ah the mighty Co vid conversation haha Such a touchy/divided subject for most. I for one am not vaccinated and I'm happy I'm not. The way the vid was handled was awful in my book. I'm a believer in free choice and thinking, both of which were very suppressed during that time. That being said if someone feels like getting several jabs and wearing double masks(still haha) then more power to them. I'm glad you're back bro and congrats on being MP World Champion J.

yeah mike

Love MPJ! Mizzou Made

Love the vids ❤

Hi Mike! I would like to see in your channel interwiews with the Denver Nuggets team, especially with Malone and Booth. And I have a question: What did you feel/think when you first time had heard some gossip that in your draft class would be a special european kid who dominates the Euroleague as teenager?

I loved listening to this podcast!! I love the perspective you have on life. It truly is a remarkable thing being able to listen and understand others thoughts on life! To answer your last question of the video, and I know I’m probably going to be one of the very few people who have this opinion, especially living in Denver myself- but I personally decided to not get vaccinated. It was hard to stand firm in my personal beliefs while at my old job because like you said, it was crazy pushed upon us. My gut feeling was telling me no and to wait it out. I feel like the vaccine was rushed and not truly tested and tried, you know? But yeah, everyone at my old job received the vaccine excluding me. And so I was the only one required to wear the mask and take weekly tests, while everyone else was able to walk freely. With that being said, I was blessed to not get sick the entire time Covid was going around. I received a blessing when I was 15 years old and in that blessing, I was specifically told that I would be freed from any serious illness or injury. And that blessing was put to the test that year and a half. I do understand the other side to receiving the vaccine and respect those who decided to get it as well. But in my personal opinion, I’m thankful I didn’t get it and stood firm in what I believed in.

The best❤🎉

thanks for bringing up the vaccines --- how did the NBA know who was vaccinated ?? did they give the vaccines to the players at the practice facility ?

Michael "Just add water" porter jr

I wonder if Mike is just naturally super curious or if this was jump started by a shroom trip 😂😂

do another video montage like the sean west one. made us see what the nba lifestyle is like

He's back lfg

Being forced to take the vaccine even in our essential blue-collar jobs sucked. I'm 31 yrs old and I don't like to harp on the past, if it's one thing I'd take back in my life it would be that.

Vaccine did very little but calm some peoples nerves. It didn’t hurt and it didn’t help much. It helped people that really needed it to feel relaxed. There’s nothing wrong with taking a vaccine. It will help you immunities and make it less likely for you to get the virus.

MIP incoming next season

25 10 THIS UPCOMINF SEASON!

I think the vaccine did help. I went on a trip to Vegas with my friend. We went to the same parties, stayed in the same room & did everything together. Once we got back home she was sick & had COVID, but I was fine and didn’t have COVID.

You used your discernment effectively in regard to 💉

Unlimited baddies needs to be on a t-shirt 🤣🤣