Brooklyn Nets star Michael Porter Jr. was spotted in Taiwan with a person known to be a transgender escort. According to Mirror Media, Porter, 27, checked into a 5-star hotel in Taiwan with trans model Xiao A La in 2023.
The media outlet obtained a blurred picture of Xiao A La with an American basketball player in the hotel lobby.
Their faces were blurred out. But based on the player’s physical characteristics, Denver Nuggets fans identified the man as Porter Jr., who was recently traded to the Nets.
According to Mirror Media, Porter visited Taiwan in September 2023. The outlet reported that Xiao A La received a private invitation from the $200 million basketball star to join him in the presidential suite at the hotel.
Xiao did not know who he was and only later found out that he was an NBA player.
Xiao A La reportedly underwent gender reassignment surgery in Thailand in 2020, and identifies as a woman.
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Ironically, Porter called out bisexual NBA players during an episode of his Curious Mike podcast in 2024.
“I hear wild stories about some of these dudes,” Porter said at the time. “Their fetishes get so crazy. They might be a straight man, but they’ve done so much stuff with so many pretty girls, and they have so much access to pretty girls, that now they’re over here messing with [trans women], or now they’re over here messing with dudes.”
He continued: “You’re looking at the craziest things, and now normal sex in real life doesn’t do it for you.”
In other news, Porter recently went viral for trying to give cash to a homeless man. But the man rejected his offer.
During his first days in New York City after the Nets trade, Porter saw a shirtless and unkempt homeless man digging through trash on the sidewalk.
Porter immediately offered the man a $100 bill, but the man rejected him.
“Man, I see a homeless dude over there. We seen him eating out the trash. If I’ve got cash on me, I’m always gon’ try to help out a brother like that, man,” Porter said in a video.
The 6’10” Nets star approached the man with a $100 bill in hand, but the man waved him away and yelled “No!”
“You don’t want no cash sir?” Porter asked the man, before stuffing the $100 bill in the man’s coat pocket and walking away.
But the man removed the cash from his coat and threw it on the ground.
“Ok. I guess not,” said Porter as he reached down to pick up the discarded cash.
“We seen him reaching in the trash can, getting a peanut butter and jelly. That’s tough, bro. I feel bad for him,” Porter said.
Watch the video below.
“Pray for that brother.” – Michael Porter Jr. as he tries to offer cash to a homeless man eating out of public trash cans.
God bless MPJ and that man??
People have a lot of opinions on who Curious Mike is.
Talking about generosity is one thing, practicing it another. He tried! pic.twitter.com/AJMC8ZWs0W
— Cam (@packdrip) July 31, 2025
