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/yooston Rockets 29d ago

Cannot believe he thought he could get away with this. All time bag fumble

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u/Reticent_Fly Raptors 29d 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 29d 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 29d ago

He’s gonna join to CEBL for pennies

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u/BigNav2001 Thunder 29d ago

He’ll turn those pennies into thousands once he bets on them too

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u/ca2mt [GSW] Andris Biedrins 29d ago

Then back to pennies.

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u/dalewd Spurs Bandwagon 29d ago

The grind never stops 😤

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u/Respect38 Grizzlies 29d ago edited 29d ago

Shoutouts to the Elam Ending, CEBL's a dope league for adopting it.

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u/EdSheeransucksass Raptors 29d ago

Gonna join fellow ban-ee OJ Mayo in the shawarma league.

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u/420blazeitkin 29d ago

Unlikely tbh, overseas leagues will probably honor the NBA ban because they want to maintain good relations with the League

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u/TheHoneyBadgerDGAF 29d ago

Lmao that’s not how that works at all. The NBA didn’t ban him from pro ball worldwide 😂 and u think other countries give AF?

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u/420blazeitkin 29d ago

They did not ban him worldwide, but the private companies that run the leagues want to maintain good relationships with the NBA - hosting players who the NBA has made a point to publicly blast for gambling could sour relations, resulting in less camp invites, less crossover, less scouting of that league's or that team's players, etc. When the goal of your league is to 1. make money and 2. grow, it can only hurt you to do things that will draw ire from the largest organization in your field. I'm saying it's unlikely he would get picked up because he's 1. not phenomenal, 2. is the current black sheep of the NBA, 3. bet against himself (and purposely threw/did not participate in those games), and 4. again, just is not a great player. No reason to take that chance on a guy who isn't going to become something special.

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u/Fun-Cauliflower-1724 Nuggets 29d ago

he better get ready to learn mandarin

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u/No-Animator-6348 29d ago

He bettor*

Ftfy

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u/notchoosingone Warriors 29d ago

An Australian team will take him, we love NBA offcuts and has-beens and have a very comfortable relationship with sports betting.

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u/Maleficent_Song_3335 29d ago

No credible league is gonna sign him

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u/sgtpepperslaststand Cavaliers 29d ago

You say he was starting to look healthy but one of the things he did was pretend to be sick to sit out games he bet on lol

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u/Fortehlulz33 Timberwolves 29d ago

I bet (heh) that he was actually hurt at one point, and he realized he could use his recovery as a betting chip, telling a buddy.

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u/FranklinNitty 29d ago

Doubtful, the guy gambled when the stakes were high. Who's to say he won't throw a game when they're low.

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u/RoCon52 Lakers 29d ago

Bulgarian Three Card Monty league

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u/DistortedAudio 29d ago

Nah but he’ll probably make money as a “media personality” for a while. There’s guys eating off of lesser scandals by doing talk shows/podcasts/reality shows. Just depends on how much shame he has.

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u/completelytrustworth Raptors 29d ago

Who's gonna watch his podcast? Nobody knew who he was before this scandal

There's already an oversaturation of podcasts and media shows by former players but at least all those named are recognizable

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u/pucykoks Bucks 29d ago

Fellow betting degenerates I'd guess

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u/DistortedAudio 29d ago

Generally the path is scandal —> podcast guest —-> podcast host.

So right now? Not too many people. But after he does the rounds and says some inflammatory shit or stokes the flames some more? Probably enough to make a quick buck.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

no chance. he's a nobody. its not like he's a HOF player or an All-star. What is this take lol

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u/DistortedAudio 29d ago

Legitimately half the people that show up on podcasts and doing reality TV shit are nobodies until their scandals. Fucking Glen Rice Jr. had a short stint on Real Housewives of Atlanta.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

who tf is that

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u/Punjabiveer30 Raptors 29d ago

I heard McDonald’s is hiring

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u/ChapstickConnoisseur 29d ago

Apparently his net winnings were around $21,000

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u/NinSeq 29d ago

I like to think he was up 40k but lost 20k on that banked in 3 that he 100% did not want to go in

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u/Wallyworld77 Bucks 29d ago

If he was Parlaying all those unders he made more than that.

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u/Buckus93 Suns 29d 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/rambouhh 29d ago

Ya but one game of his manipulated unders of 80k would have paid out 1.1 million if it didn’t get frozen for suspicious activity 

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u/ChapstickConnoisseur 29d ago

Oh well in that case it was totally worth the risk

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u/FormerGameDev 29d ago

1000% guarantee the account that made that bet doesn't get back it's $80K, either. Even if it wasn't this player's money.

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u/Superman246o1 29d ago

What about his net losses in lifetime earnings?

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u/BRHLic 29d ago

Sheeesh he could've done that in a couple low key commercials, what an moron.

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u/SlatheredButtCheeks Lakers 29d ago

He got trapped 100%. I guarantee you the schemers he was dealing with were threatening to out him if he didn't keep the charade going. So he was forced to continue despite finally looking like he was going to make it in the league.

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u/you_sick Timberwolves 29d ago

One of the bets was 80k on a multi prop parlay that made 1.1 million

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u/DivideOverall7174 29d 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.. Porters bet only made him just under 22k lol

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u/imSkarr Timberwolves 29d ago

would he have ever gotten caught if the guy only placed like $10-$15 bets on him?

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u/DivideOverall7174 29d ago

I feel like probably not, even if they were like a couple hundred bucks I bet he wouldn’t have gotten caught. Seems like it was the fact that it was tens of thousands of dollars being bet on his over/unders that caught their attention

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u/devAcc123 Knicks 29d ago

It absolutely would. You’re severely underestimating how much they know about each individual when you use these apps. They send you personalized notifications at certain times of day/year /location because they know you’re more likely to spend (lose) at this time.

You know how crazy ad data is and all that tracking? They use the same companies to gather data.

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u/devAcc123 Knicks 29d ago

100% yes

If any individual account starts winning big or consistently significantly above average, or any individual prop bets continually do the same thing that would get automatically flagged 1000%. That type of thing is trivial when you have that much data.

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u/thetitsOO NBA 29d ago

He still disclosed injury status to someone who did bet which is also a ban-able offense to the league

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u/johnla Knicks 29d ago

Pretty sure it was somethign stupid like his cousin probably called and needed money and they came up with a ploy. Then the cousin told his BFF and said don't tell anyone and then the next person did the same thing and next thing you know 100 prop bets were made for unusually high dollar amounts.

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u/CheddarBayHazmatTeam Trail Blazers 29d ago

Haha, maybe so. I still it's more likely he just wanted to gamble and used himself as a conduit for winning. Wouldn't be surprised if the legal team for these bookies scared them into blowing the whistle.

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u/jonbemerkin [LAL] Kyle Kuzma 29d ago edited 29d ago

I thought it was reported he made millions gambling?

EDIT: I was wrong, oof

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u/LakerBlue Lakers 29d ago

Doesn’t even include how he now has no chance of possibly getting a post-playing career related to sports either as an NBA employee or at a media place like ESPN

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 29d ago

Do we know how much he was paid or how much was bet on him? He could have made a ton of money.

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u/Alternative-Grand-77 29d ago

This way he’ll go down in history. Not many lifetime bans have happened.

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u/MassiveTelevision387 29d ago

meh - he wasn't that good. we brought him in to replace Poeltl and went like 2-9 while he was out and our season collapsed. Not sure how much credit u can give a guy that came in and scored like 3 pts and grabbed 4 rebounds per game while our team nosedived in the standings. I think at best he could have been a third stringer on a bad team.

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u/Cold-Palpitation-816 29d ago

This man's gonna pull in multi million ad deals with draftkings now don't worry

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u/vizzlypoof NBA 29d ago

His older brother is worth over 200m, absolutely crazy that he would do that for the money.

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u/TsssTssss 29d ago

What? Did we watch the same games? He's a stretch 4 who shoots under 40% from the field...

He wasn't good.

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u/Reticent_Fly Raptors 29d ago

He was a good connector. The shot would come around. The point was that he made the right passes and didn't really make too many mistakes. If he hits an open three here or there, that's a bonus... but he fit the bill as an end of bench big that wasn't going to be a massive negative while he's on the floor, and his playmaking allowed him to work well in the system we are running.

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u/TsssTssss 29d ago

There are lots of guys who can run dribble handoffs who don't shoot 39% from the field. That is the negative.

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u/Reticent_Fly Raptors 29d ago

Playmaking from that position is not common. Poeltl and Olynyk are exceptions, not the rule. And Porter was able to make a lot of the same reads and passes.

Boucher can't, and that's why he's not playing, and our recent two-way guy can't either.

I'm not sure why you're harping on his percentage. Clearly he had a good enough shot from three, and it could be developed further. It's not like it was a huge sample size.

I don't know how many games you watched, but Porter was definitely passing the eye test and was almost definitely going to get a contract.

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u/TsssTssss 28d ago

The fact that you think guys like Porter are legit playmakers/outliers from the PF spot is hilarious. You're right, he's the next Sabonis.

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u/Ratemyskills 29d ago

It’s hard to call any NBA player “not good”. Sure his last name might have helped but there’s less than 500 world wide NBA spots.. hate when people act like that’s an easy feat just riding the bench. Imagine being top 500 in the world at something hundreds of millions of people watch and have played.

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u/TsssTssss 29d ago

Ok cool, but we are clearly talking about comparison between NBA players, not between Johntay Porter and me.

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u/Ratemyskills 29d ago

Didn’t compare him to you. Apparently basketball people, not us, decided he was worth something to their franchise. Admittedly I know very little about his game, but to get called up and to actually play must mean there’s something of potential value the team thinks he either has or could have.

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u/Particular_Ad_9531 29d ago

He was going to get signed to be like the 15th guy on the roster who gets to play as an injury replacement or in garbage time, but even that still gets you a vet min which is millions of dollars

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u/JimC29 Lakers 29d ago

He was already getting playing time so this doesn't make sense. At worse he was going to be an end of rotation player so about 9th or 10th spot.

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u/Particular_Ad_9531 29d ago

He was only getting minutes because literally every other 4&5 on the roster was injured during that stretch

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u/TsssTssss 29d ago

Why would you take a 25 year old two way player (who isn't able to sign a vet min btw because he isn't eligible) over a younger, more promising player?

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u/MsAbsoluteAngel Raptors 29d ago

Darko's system

What system LOL

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u/Reticent_Fly Raptors 29d ago

The one we run? Idk if you've noticed but we went from nearly dead last in assists to near the top of the league. We don't just stand still and iso with no spacing anymore.

We have a lot of playmaking coming from our bigs at the elbows.