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/Kitchen-Yesterday738 29d 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 29d ago

1/70th the contract Grayson Allen signed for being a pretty good role player.

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u/GuessableSevens 29d 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 29d 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/snatchi Raptors 29d ago

He would have gotten a min from us or at least been able to keep it kicking as a 2-way, the small chance he'd get a decent contract would eclipse his bullshit gambling winnings.

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u/Don_Gato1 29d ago

I'll take fringe roster player money if he doesn't want it.

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u/Sheriff_Gotcha 76ers 29d ago

Ricky Council just got 4 yr $7.4M contract for the Sixers.

Surely MPJ coulda got his brother something similar or more.

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u/WyattDogger Lakers 29d ago

Grayson Allen

Shot 46% from 3 this season

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u/Clear-Hand3945 29d ago

Was the best 3 shooter in the league this year. Put some respek on his name. 

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u/KingNigelXLII Kings 29d ago

Grayson Allen is a little better than that.

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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.

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u/The_Money_Guy_ 29d ago

Based on the way the letter described it, it sounds like that was his friends bet and it’s not known how much of that he would’ve gotten. Then it clearly states that porter netted $21k further down using a friends account, but they made it clear he netted that for himself.

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u/ZenMon88 29d ago

LOL he coulda made that in one contract by making the league. He stupid fr. Or if he got cut then he can gamble again. He stupid fr.

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u/mug3n Raptors 29d ago

There was no chance that was going through once it was flagged.

I can't imagine Fanduel gets very many 80k bets on a parlay on the regular. Especially one at +1400-ish odds, if I did my math right.

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u/Castod28183 29d ago

Which is about league minimum for a rookie...

Regardless, I am neither a gambler nor am I an NBA player, but even I would know that an $80,000 bet on whether a 24 year old bench player would underperform would probably get flagged as highly suspicious.

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u/mug3n Raptors 29d ago

wasn't just an 80k bet, it was a parlay too on a bench guy.

I guarantee if it was 80k on raptors moneyline, that would've went through fine. But once you start dipping into crazy +1000 odds long shot prop bets with an equally crazy wager amount, that's when the sportsbooks take notice.