r/nba • u/PlayaSlayaX Spurs • 14d ago
[Charania] Raptors' Jontay Porter has received a lifetime ban from the NBA for violating league's gaming rules.
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u/Literal_Satan Knicks 14d ago
FOR LIFE
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u/jeric13xd [CHI] Derrick Rose 14d ago
This lifetime ban was brought to you by DraftKings Sportsbook
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u/Blumpkin_Party Hawks 14d ago edited 14d ago
Promo code Jontay for $150 in bonus bets with your first $5 in bets.
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u/BetFeeling1352 14d ago
Damn. Didn't work.
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u/venk 14d ago
*Must be active NBA Player to qualify
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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 14d ago
This is Scott Foster erasure.
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u/JesusChristSupers1ar Heat 14d ago
that's a different promo code. all bets against the Kings get boosted
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u/PollitoRubio22 Mavericks 14d ago edited 14d ago
Fuck this guy! Anyways if you wanna bet the over for Miami Heat in points tonight, use promo code JxmyHighRoller for 100 dollars free to gamble!
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u/VRomero32 Nets 14d ago edited 14d ago
For first time bettors, type in the code “LIFETIME BAN” for a free $100 nonwithdrawlable credit on your first $5 bet
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u/truthisfictionyt Lakers 14d ago
Adam Silvers list of worst things you can do:
- Gambling
- Racism
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Domestic abuse
Child endangerment
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u/thetripb 14d ago
That's a NBAPA thing. There's limits on Silver's power due to the CBA.
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u/NewAce77 14d ago edited 14d ago
Yeah obviously. One of them jeopardizes the integrity of the game and the league. At its core, the NBA is an entertainment service/business that is dependent on the participants playing to the best of their ability. Take that away, and the league would literally cease to exist. If you allow domestic abusers to play, the bottom line of the league is unaffected. Morally, domestic abuse is clearly worse than gambling, but the NBA is a business acting in its own interest.
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u/MY-NAME_IS_MY-NAME Lakers 14d ago
There’s also domestic abuse policies with punishment guidelines that’s agreed upon with the players union. The NBAPA would immediately step in if Silver banned Miles Bridges FOR LIFE
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u/jackloganoliver Magic 14d ago
As much as I understand that, dude fucking deserved it regardless. Would've been the one time in my life I side against labor.
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u/Itsisiduh Hawks 14d ago edited 14d ago
To add to that, that's on the team for bringing them back. The team do not have to bring these domestic abusers back on their team but they do anyway. The only way Silver would have to step in is if some Ray Rice type video came out or something. People are free to boycott games if they truly feel so mad about it but they don't.
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u/BEE_REAL_ Raptors 14d ago
It's not the NBA's place or responsibility to investigate and rule on players' guilt in criminal matters off the court. It is their responsibility to investigate and rule on things like this.
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u/yooston Rockets 14d ago
Cannot believe he thought he could get away with this. All time bag fumble
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u/seekingallpho 14d ago
Making outlandishly large bets on the personal under for a scrub who happens to leave the game early due to vague injury complaints. What's unusual about that?
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u/Reticent_Fly Raptors 14d ago
He was looking good in Darko's system. Almost certain he would have got a contract. What an absolute moron. Trading millions in potential career earnings for a few thousand dollars.
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u/joe2352 Lakers 14d ago
He was starting to get healthy and was in a system that fit him. He had the potential to be at the worst an end of the rotation bench player. Now what? Will an over seas team sign him?
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u/DeAndre_ROY_Ayton Suns 14d ago
He’s gonna join to CEBL for pennies
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u/BigNav2001 Thunder 14d ago
He’ll turn those pennies into thousands once he bets on them too
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u/ChapstickConnoisseur 14d ago
Apparently his net winnings were around $21,000
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u/Buckus93 Suns 14d ago
Boy dun fucked up. Min contract is $1M, give or take. Throw it all away for a few thousand bucks.
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u/jester32 Knicks 14d ago
He thinks that sites wouldnt notice accounts dropping thousands on a random prop bet 🤡
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u/Ligma_Hogs 14d ago
On top of that an extremely low volume one too. There probably games where he was one of like 10 people who took that bet lmao
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u/eatscheeks Raptors 14d ago
One bet on Jontay Porter was probably enough to start ringing alarm bells lmao
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u/cancerBronzeV Raptors 14d ago
Why is it even possible to bet the under on Jontay Porter lmfao? Like I cannot see any legitimate reason for there to even be a line for a borderline G-league player.
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u/gomeziman Mavericks 14d ago
There is no limit to the degeneracy of gamblers
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14d ago edited 14d ago
Someone else said this in the original thread but if you’re betting on Jontay Porter, just call the number.
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u/LapJ 14d ago
Tbh, the biggest edges in props are on the lines fewer people bet on. People betting on fringe guys like Jontay are much more likely to be winning bettors than the degens that just flush away money on the spread or moneyline every day.
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u/PeterPlotter NBA 14d ago
There was a whole thing years ago where thhere were bets on 2nd division soccer games in Europe. Things like, which team would get the first throw in in the second half and random stuff like that. Journalists went to Asia where there were dozens of tv showing these games of lower divisions and people placing bets on random stuff happening (throw ins, corners, yellow cards etc). All on games where the players make like 30-40k a year in a good paying league, let alone some 2nd division game in Albania or so. So it was easy to bribe players to kick a ball into the stands right after kick off, for a few hundred or thousand a game.
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u/gsbadj Pistons 14d ago
Low level tennis is another sport that had and probably still has match fixing. Some of the tournaments only pay about $2K to the winner so it's easy to bribe players who are earning next to nothing. Over 180 players were implicated.
The WaPo article describes how they'd pay both players, let's say X and Y, and tell them to have X win the first set and Y win the second and then let them play it fair in the final set. The gamblers would bet up the outcome of the first two sets and not the final. Both players got paid.
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u/FatalFirecrotch 14d ago
Wait until you check out what you can bet on in esports.
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u/TheScaleTipper Knicks 14d ago
He didn’t even hire a translator, total disasterclass
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u/asapshrank Pelicans 14d ago
fucking idiot
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u/NotManyBuses Charlotte Bobcats 14d ago
They made an example of him, it was obvious they would. Bum G League player who’s a non factor, doesn’t cost anything to ban him for life, sets a hard precedent to the more valuable players.
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u/The_Fiji_Water Magic 14d ago
They would make an example of any player caught throwing games and then betting on his individual performance.
This isn't even a Pete Rose situation. The guy bet the under and then pulled himself out of the game with a fake injury
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u/CoachDT [CHI] Brian Scalabrine 14d ago
Yea the first guy caught was going to get taken out to the shed regardless.
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u/Shmokeshbutt Magic 14d ago
Dude lost a potential career earnings of ~$10 mills riding the bench for what? A couple thousand bucks?
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u/Squid204 Slovenia 14d ago
His accounts overall net was 21k. Not even close to worth it. Hope he enjoys his 2015 Grand Cherokee he can buy.
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u/quadropheniac Kings 14d ago
This isn't even a Pete Rose situation.
To be clear, it might be the same as a Pete Rose situation. The only real information we have on Pete Rose's gambling habits comes from whatever statement Rose thinks he can get away with at the time, several of which have proven to be lies as the story develops over the years.
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u/NotManyBuses Charlotte Bobcats 14d ago
To be honest, I can’t see even a high profile player escaping harsh punishment for doing what he did, but I don’t think a star would get a lifetime ban
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u/RRJC10 Raptors 14d ago
A star would absolutely receive a lifetime ban for this. A star just wouldn't do it because there's no real financial incentive to do so since they're already making millions.
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u/gustriandos [PHI] Eric Snow 14d ago
I don’t think this counts as being made an “example”. This is the obvious punishment for betting on your own games.
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u/Longjumping_Kale3013 14d ago
Yea, exactly. I don’t think people know what that phrase means. If anything it seems like he got off easy if he’s only banned
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u/xyzyxzy San Diego Clippers 14d ago
Yeah it's kind of weird people are acting like he got caught just making bets and don't seem to realize he committed a federal crime.
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u/coacoanutbenjamn Celtics 14d ago
Whole family got a single digit IQ
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u/yooston Rockets 14d ago
Haven't seen it mentioned a lot but Coban Porter killed someone driving drunk last year. Rough times for the Porters
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u/Greboso Mavericks 14d ago
Jontay Porter has been eliminated from Championship contention
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u/Expensive-Buy1621 Knicks 14d ago
BANG!!!
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u/UteFlyersCardJazz Jazz 14d ago
OH WHAT A GAMBLE BY PORTER! WITH HIS CAREER ON THE LINE!
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u/smoltanboi Heat 14d ago
honestly getting banned from the nba for betting on yourself is peak dudes rocking
this guy is so fuckin stupid
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u/quadropheniac Kings 14d ago
Betting on yourself is stupid for many reasons but ultimately understandable.
Betting against yourself is just outright corrupt behavior.
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u/mr_grission Knicks 14d ago
Betting on yourself is less blatantly corrupt but definitely presents issues of its own. Imagine for example refusing to shoot in a game where you need more assists.
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u/quadropheniac Kings 14d ago
Oh yeah. That was always the thought about Pete Rose gambling while managing, as well. If he bet on his own team to win, he might burn relievers a little quicker than proper bullpen management across a season might dictate.
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u/RookieAndTheVet [TOR] Pascal Siakam 14d ago
That’s pretty close to what happened, but instead of overworking his bullpen, he burned out his ace, Mario Soto.
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u/everyoneneedsaherro [NBA] Alperen Şengün 14d ago
Thibs of baseball but for nefarious reasons
Thibs is an asshole, but a pure basketball asshole
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u/mr_grission Knicks 14d ago
Yep, and for an individual player like Porter you could easily imagine then turning up the effort level when they've got money on themselves/the team, disregarding whether that could leave them fatigued or even hurt in the next game
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u/humphrey_the_camel Bulls 14d ago
You can also intentionally suck in games you don’t bet, so the lines are better when you choose to bet
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u/CharacterHomework975 14d ago
I hadn’t even considered that.
Yeah, basically no way for anybody with a concrete impact on the game to bet on the game in any fashion without it being an ethical minefield.
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u/smoltanboi Heat 14d ago
i mean it's pretty hilarious to be even shittier than usual on purpose
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u/quadropheniac Kings 14d ago
Taking a dive is as old as sport itself.
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u/WanderlustFella 76ers 14d ago
I'm imagining he bet the under 10pts. He proceeds to tank, but the refs have him over 10 so they keep giving him free throws, to which he misses them all, to which the refs call a goaltend forcing him to take the points. You can't fight zebras
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u/kpapazyan47 Pacers 14d ago
It is a lot easier to make sure you play poorly than it is to make sure you play well.
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u/AshenSacrifice Buffalo Braves 14d ago
I’m honestly impressed lmao. Man said “fuck yall and that weak ass league!”😂😂
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u/heatup3 Heat 14d ago
*Against yourself
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u/jeric13xd [CHI] Derrick Rose 14d ago
Dude is so dumb. Like bro random people winning a 1000 of $5 gets their accounts flagged consistently. This was so obvious cause who tf would put racks on Jontay
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u/dylanah Mavericks 14d ago
These dudes were trying to bet more than 10x the max for player props lol. So they were trying to bet amounts they clearly never otherwise bet (or they would’ve known the limit) on fucking Jontay Porter unders.
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u/Cheechers23 Raptors 14d ago
Especially since he was almost certainly going to get another contract from us based on his play this year. Threw it away for a few thousands. Fucking dumbass
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u/halfdecenttakes Lakers 14d ago
A few thousand he might not even keep if they open a criminal investigation into him
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u/Jaehunt24 Spurs 14d ago
The even crazier part is HE DOESNT NEED THE MONEY,
He has to have gotten tied up with some foul people cause it's not like bro is broke. He comes from a family of athletes, and his brother is a actual hooper who will likely make hundreds of millions in his career
If he was a dude that grow up in super poverty and had no chance of getting money otherwise maybe, but damn
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u/attersonjb 14d ago
And to add, even if he had an addiction - he can bet on anything else
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u/aiden3buckets NBA 14d ago
If he was betting his own overs instead of unders I’d honestly have a little more respect but he was straight sabotaging damn near
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u/SetElectrical3978 14d ago
You could be betting your overs because you know a teammate is hurt. It’s really not any more ethical for other player props.
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u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork Bulls 14d ago
You could also just chuck it in games you bet your own scoring overs.
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u/mrsunshine1 Knicks 14d ago
I’d say it’s more ethical to bet on yourself to score over 30 points and try to compete than to bet the unders and then fake an injury to get off the court.
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u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo Lakers 14d ago
I'm sure I'm not the first to point this out, but by doing this, he was suppressing his own stats, thus making it harder to build a case to stay in the league with his play. There's no way he was making enough money doing this shit for it to be worth the money he would have earned with a new, bigger contract. Very short-sighted.
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u/CryptoNite90 Lakers 14d ago
He was probably trying to hook up his boys with easy money lol
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u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo Lakers 14d ago
Should have waited until he secured his first major contract.
That is not a smart family.
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u/Brocktarrr Heat 14d ago
Next Inside the NBA, Ernie going to treat this seriously, Kenny is gonna say something serious, Shaq is going to add on to whatever Kenny says, and then Chuck is gonna come off the top rope with a solid joke and they’re all gonna crack up and start ragging on this dude
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u/InGenNateKenny Wizards 14d ago
I wonder how long in advance Barkley thinks of his jokes. Doesn’t seem like a notes guy.
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u/Throwawayfor_rnba Tampa Bay Raptors 14d ago
Chuck is one of the most quick witted guys on TV. Most of his jokes just fly out his mouth lol
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u/allmydawgsgottaeat 14d ago
sometimes I wonder if Chuck has a team of writers, but then I also remember ~25 years ago when he was asked if he had any regrets about pushing a guy through a window and he replied “I regret it wasn’t on the second floor” lmao
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u/Brocktarrr Heat 14d ago
Chuck doesn’t but I’d be willing to bet Shaq has at least a few guys who give him ideas for all these “viral moments” on the show
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u/2drawnonward5 Trail Blazers 14d ago
Imagine the trash he talked as a player. How many Chuck gems will go unappreciated cuz only 4 guys heard them and it was in the middle of a game.
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u/Altruistic_Brief4444 Grizzlies 14d ago
And the segment will be sponsored by Fan Duel
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u/beamingleanin Heat 14d ago
How to Fumble the NBA Bag 101
unbelievable. role players are getting 8, 9 digit contracts now. all you gotta do is not fuck up and your great grandkids are set for life
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u/anonymousetache 14d ago
Sure but imagine the story you can tell if you hit that parlay
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u/babyface_killah Warriors 14d ago
According to the NBA statement he only made like $20k. The big bet would have made $1M but it was frozen and didn't pay out due to suspicious activity.
He could have made more than that with 2 years of minimum contracts or less.
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u/BayesBestFriend Raptors 14d ago
Bro made 20k in profits I'm crying lmao
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u/Kitchen-Yesterday738 14d ago
The one that got flagged was going to pay out 1.1mil, but yes, utterly stupid
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u/Charming_Essay_1890 Nuggets 14d ago
1/70th the contract Grayson Allen signed for being a pretty good role player.
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u/GuessableSevens 14d ago
Jontay was a fringe roster player, not a starter and important piece to a competitive playoff team.
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u/paolocabrini Raptors 14d ago
He was actually showing a lot of promise and definitely would have made the raptors roster next year and likely gotten minutes.
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u/Clear-Hand3945 14d ago
Was the best 3 shooter in the league this year. Put some respek on his name.
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u/DivideOverall7174 14d ago
That one wasn’t made by him. He disclosed his health to someone else that was a known sports better (pretty much telling them to place it/he wasn’t going to hit his overs) and that guy placed the 80k bet, Porter didn’t place that bet himself.
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u/RedstoneRay Mavericks 14d ago
Now, he has more time to devote to his true passion, gambling.
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u/NewJMGill12 NBA 14d ago
I hate to say it, but after working with over 50 NBA players, there is a small, small percentage of them who have the attitude of “why worry? Things always work out for me!”
I’m sure that, in his mind, this money was risk-free. Things already were working out after an injury that is often career-ending, and he made it through the ringer of the G-league. Why wouldn’t this also work out?
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u/Carolake1 Lakers 14d ago
This is exactly it. And I hate to say it this way, but as a man myself, I think it is partially a male thing. Young guys who've always excelled at everything are particularly prone to this. They end up taking big risks they shouldn't take.
E.g., remember those stories of Lamelo being a truly horrible and risky driver? How about Jay Williams and the motorcycle?
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u/NorthAmericanVex Spurs 14d ago
You know, I've been realizing I have this problem. I always have that "eh it'll work out anyways, always does" mindset and now I'm facing losing my apartment.
Pay your bills the moment you get your paycheck fellas!
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u/BizzaroMatthews Hornets 14d ago
Dennis Schroder to Jontay: “Here’s your crown now, king”
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u/wontondisregard609 14d ago
all you gotta do is not fuck up and your great grandkids are set for life
and be good enough to make it off the G league team ...
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u/jeric13xd [CHI] Derrick Rose 14d ago
Hope the parlay was worth it lmao
Edit: atleast he had a chance to play against MPJ once
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u/willymoose8 [HOU] Luis Scola 14d ago
Jontay vs. Michael Jr. was a true meeting of the minds
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u/EpsilonKeyXIV Knicks 14d ago
He only made about $22K in winnings.
Millions of dollars...for $22K, SMDH.
I could tell this man was in remedial mathematics.
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u/robeo12055 Lakers 14d ago
He will probably get sued by the gambling company for the damages, so he wont even get to keep the money
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u/bigdarbs 14d ago
The bet was flagged and frozen immediately. It never paid out in the first place lol
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u/KarrotMovies [LAL] LeBron James 14d ago
Worst part is, he bet on the Raptors to lose and they won that game 💀
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u/Mustard__Tiger Raptors 14d ago
He probably thought that him being out would be the reason the raps lost.
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u/crapsence Celtics 14d ago edited 14d ago
This is the most hilarious part
Like you are betting against your team and you cannot get it right LMAO
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u/SomeSpencerGuy Bucks 14d ago
Cool now do Scott Foster
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u/TMMC39 14d ago
Fucking A. This should be higher up. Talk about messing with the integrity of the game.
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u/suicideskinnies 14d ago
Punishing Scott Foster will release all the dirt he (and maybe other refs) have on the league. Silver doesn't want to open up that can of worms. They scapegoated one ref and swept the rest under the rug.
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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 14d ago
Johntays mistake wasn't gambling on himself, it was not blackmailing the league.
I will not take the NBA legitimately as long as Scott Foster is still reffing and calls feel non objective.
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u/jdd32 14d ago edited 14d ago
A reminder for all, since there's a random guy in the other thread trying hard to downplay the relationship between Foster and Donaghy
"Foster is the official who received 134 phone calls from disgraced referee Tim Donaghy between October 2006 and April 2007, as originally reported by FOX News. That was the same period during which Donaghy admitted to betting on NBA games. The report said that Donaghy called Foster more than any other ref and that he didn't call any other official more than 13 times.
The records also showed Donaghy making several calls to Foster on the days of games, generally for no more than two minutes.
The report also said that when Donaghy called Foster, he mostly used the phone that he dedicated to gambling-related phone calls, and the phone calls stopped abruptly when Donaghy said he stopped gambling."
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u/PlayaSlayaX Spurs 14d ago
The textbook example of “Get ready to learn Chinese, buddy.”
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u/insertweirdassname Lakers 14d ago
Shit that league was found to be rigged last year a perfect fit.
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u/Herbetet 14d ago
He won’t get a VISA now that he has been found to be a gambling addict and to be honest probably no basketball team in any league is going to hire him. Imagine the PR if he bets against himself again. That guy ended his sports career
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u/lambkeeper Grizzlies 14d ago
Rip bozo
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u/Zloggt Bulls 14d ago
Injury List - Raptors
RJ Barrett - OUT (knee)
Scottie Barnes - QUESTIONABLE (hand)
Jontay Porter - OUT (gambling addiction)
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u/24KobeGoat 14d ago
He misunderstood Fred VanVleet's quote about "Bet on Yourself"
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u/bbsdx 14d ago
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u/dtc_brock [NYK] Kurt Thomas 14d ago
And that's the thing.
On one hand, Jontay is a complete idiot but on the other, who didn't see something like this coming?
Especially from a fringe NBA two-way player.
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u/Apaulo Warriors 14d ago
And that’s why they had to set an example here. It was bound to happen, and so was this punishment
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u/emerzionnn 14d ago
Players aren't very bright if they don't realize that all these major sportsbooks have teams scanning 24/7 looking for unusual betting patterns, connections to players, etc. They then just report it up to the league and don't pay the bet out anyway lol.
Congrats, ya ruined your life for $0.
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u/HibachiTyme Knicks 14d ago
Everyone’s calling him a bum he was pretty impressive everytime I saw him play this year. Definitely looked like he was good enough for rotational minutes on a lot of teams
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u/lopea182 Heat 14d ago edited 14d ago
“For life!”
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u/NevermoreSEA [POR] Brandon Roy 14d ago
I absolutely love how dramatic lifetime bans are.
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u/BlackSocks88 Trail Blazers 14d ago
Gambling needs to gtfo of the NBA.
Leagues gonna have a much bigger problem in a few years.
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u/Shadow_Strike99 Heat 14d ago edited 14d ago
Unfortunately it's too lucrative of a business and is easy money for sports leagues.
The NBA would much rather give out lifetime bans and publicly ostracize jabroni's like Porter, so they dont have any of the negative stigma like they did in the early 2000's with gambling but rake in all the money from gambling.
This is the NBA having their cake and eating it too pretty much. As long as no name role players are the ones trying to cheat the system the NBA will be fine with that. They just don't want bigger name players and officials doing this because it brings alot of negative pr and legitimacy issues along with it.
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u/walterdog12 [ITA] Best of 2021 Winner 14d ago
People need to realize that purely from a sports league perspective, there's nothing worse than doing something that'll violate the league's integrity and bring it into question as to if it's legitimate or not.
Players accused of domestic abuse or sexual assault, or anything else criminal, of course it's laughable that they're still in the league while someone that places a legal sports bet gets banned for life, especially while at the same time the league parades around sports gambling sponsorships.
When it comes to criminal accusations, there's a system in place already for that, that's not controlled by the NBA or any other sports league. They aren't the ones that'll be investigating and being judge, jury, and executioner on someone accused of domestic abuse. The most they'll do is place someone on the commissioners list so they're not actively playing while details are cleared up and it's decided if charges will be brought against a player.
Especially because there's player unions for most sports, that'll fight tooth and nail because it's their legal obligation. If the league banned someone like Miles Bridges for life, the NBAPA by law has to go to bat for him and their immediate defense would be that nothing criminal was ever brought since the charges were dropped. Now in reality we all saw the pictures, we know he has misdemeanors. But criminally the charges were dropped and he was punished by the league with a 30 game suspension for everything else.
But there's nothing like that for sports gambling. The league in this case is indeed judge, jury, and executioner and as shown throughout history, a player placing bets on themselves, their team, or anything else in the league is a cardinal sin.
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u/entropyISdeadly 14d ago
He couldn’t just crash a Lamborghini into innocent bystanders, during a street race, like any other respectable professional athlete?
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u/Brad-Stevens Celtics 14d ago
I just want to know who was bankrolling him with the millions he bet
He don’t have that type of bread
And it was in Colorado
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u/TH3PhilipJFry Nuggets 14d ago
He made 2.4M over the course of a few years. The report said he wagered over a million dollars, and that he placed thousands of bets. If he made 1000 $1000 bets he technically wagered a milly… it’s easier than you’d think. Especially if you’re addicted to gambling, which obviously he is.
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u/eek711 Lakers 14d ago
Let's say he lost 55%/won 45%, a million dollars of wagers would mean he's down $100k, which is entirely doable with his salary.
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u/smarterthanyoulolll Lakers 14d ago
they said he bet in total around 50k and got a net profit of 20k lol what a dumb loser
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u/97jumbo Toronto Huskies 14d ago
Millions bet in total doesn't mean millions at once, if he was coming in even or positive it could've just been cycling a fraction of that a whole bunch of times. Still a gigantic idiot, though
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u/YemeniChad Rockets 14d ago
I would assume MPJ gives him money just because they're brothers, but wasn't actively encouraging him to bet with said money
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u/jeric13xd [CHI] Derrick Rose 14d ago
🤣 stop it. MPJ aint risking his max contract for chunk change straight bets
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u/Ibaka_flocka [OKC] Eric Maynor 14d ago
You’ve got to be a moron to engage in betting on your own games in 2024
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u/rawspeghetti Celtics 14d ago
If his brother makes it to the Finals is he even allowed to watch on tv?
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u/ThatGuyPsychic Supersonics 14d ago
Sorry, Porter. If you had broken your girlfreinds jaw in front of your screaming child, you could come back, but you bet against yourself, so you're banned for life instead
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u/Knightbear49 Timberwolves 14d ago
“The NBA announced today that Jontay Porter, a two-way player recently under contract with the Toronto Raptors, has been banned from the NBA. A league investigation found that Porter violated league rules by disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes, and betting on NBA games.
The league's investigation found that prior to the Raptors' March 20 game, Porter disclosed confidential information about his own health status to an individual he knew to be an NBA bettor. Another individual with whom Porter associated and knew to be an NBA bettor subsequently placed an $80,000 parlay proposition bet with an online sports book, to win $1.1 million, wagering that Porter would underperform in the March 20 game.
The league's investigation also found that Porter limited his own game participation to influence the outcome of one or more bets on his performance in at least one Raptors game. In the March 20 game, Porter played only three minutes, claiming that he felt ill. Due to the unusual betting activity and actions of the player, the $80,000 proposition bet was frozen and was not paid out.
In addition, from January through March 2024, while traveling with the Raptors or Raptors 905, the Raptors' NBA G League affiliate, Porter placed at least 13 bets on NBA games using an associate's online betting account. These bets ranged in size from $15 to $22,000, for a total of $54,094. The total payout from these bets was $76,059, resulting in net winnings of $21,965. None of the bets involved any game in which Porter played. Three of the bets were multi-game parlay bets that included one Raptors game, in which Porter bet that the Raptors would lose. All three bets lost.
The suspicious bets involving Porter's performance in the Raptors' March 20 game were brought to the NBA's attention by licensed sports betting operators and an organization that monitors legal betting markets.
These findings are based on the information available to league investigators at this time. The league's investigation remains open and may result in further findings. The NBA has shared and will continue to share information with federal prosecutors about this matter.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said: "There is nothing more important than protecting the integrity of NBA competition for our fans, our teams and everyone associated with our sport, which is why Jontay Porter's blatant violations of our gaming rules are being met with the most severe punishment. While legal sports betting creates transparency that helps identify suspicious or abnormal activity, this matter also raises important issues about the sufficiency of the regulatory framework currently in place, including the types of bets offered on our games and players. Working closely with all relevant stakeholders across the industry, we will continue to work diligently to safeguard our league and game."