He played college basketball for the Rider Broncs and was the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Player of the Year in 2002.
Porter was raised in North Jersey; his mother moved him from Newark to Irvington in the eighth grade so he could live in a safer environment.
"[1] Porter averaged a league-leading 20.3 points and 8.4 rebounds during the 2001–02 season to earn the MAAC Player of the Year award.
[5] After his graduation from Rider, Porter was selected by the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs as the 16th overall pick in the 2002 United States Basketball League (USBL) draft.
[7] Porter has played in Angola, Finland and Spain but has spent the majority of his professional career in France.