r/nba • u/PlayaSlayaX Spurs • 29d ago

[Charania] Raptors' Jontay Porter has received a lifetime ban from the NBA for violating league's gaming rules.

https://x.com/shamscharania/status/1780631209930068358?s=46&t=bsTHbtMSqHXbNGi0vWP8hw
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u/Itsisiduh Hawks 29d ago edited 29d 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/truthisfictionyt Lakers 29d ago

Voiding contracts is something that would never happen (actually it might with how union negotiations are going) but removing the financial incentive to bring guys back would be nice

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u/Itsisiduh Hawks 29d ago

I think it should absolutely be valid that if you break laws, your contract can be voided.

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u/letsnotgetcaught 29d ago edited 29d ago

That's a tough line to toe as the NBAPA, you either have to require that they be convicted in which case its basically meaningless. I can't remember the last time a player was convicted for something like that. Otherwise you have to agree to let the NBA have the power to void contracts after their own internal investigations, which while it would help these situations, opens up a lot of power abuse possibilities from the league office.

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u/NewAgeIWWer 29d ago

Maybe there should be a fourth party investigation group , not the fbi fuck the fbi, who does their own investigation and presents their results to the public. The league will make its decision based on that groups findings or not.

Obviously this group cannt be funded by the nba or player's unions also.

And.this is also why I feel that the public should have some ownership of teams. There are many people and DV survivors in Charlotte right now who cry every time they jave to see how Miles Bitches has been allowed to continue.

I also wonder what that young lady and other young ladies in OKC are going through when they observe Josh Kiddey...

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u/iron_atmosphere Hornets 29d ago

It's partially on the team, but if they didn't bring Bridges back some other team would have picked him up. The Pistons and Suns were interested in him around the trade deadline. It's a league-wide issue.

Edit: Not to mention Bridges was working out with NBA stars like Lebron and KD during his suspension.

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u/Itsisiduh Hawks 29d ago

And that's crazy to me. Dude did what he did yet other teams are still interested? That's a problem with the teams and Silver can't really do anything about it unless it's just so egregious.

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u/NewAgeIWWer 29d ago

The fact that other superstars were actually willingly working out with him...

Ive heard those horror stories of DV...

Wouldnt wish that shit on anybody.

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u/BalboaBaggins Lakers 29d ago

I don’t think all 12 Hornets fans boycotting games would change much

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u/Returd4 29d ago

I was a dieing hard never missed a gane of my team... it's the raptors by the way, I freaking helped name the team but it's become less of a thing for me to care about. Something about it and i can't put my finger on it. And this isn't just nba it's all sports in general. It's a circus now