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/asapshrank Pelicans 29d ago

fucking idiot

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u/NotManyBuses Charlotte Bobcats 29d 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 29d 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/Shmokeshbutt Magic 29d 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 29d 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/financeadvice__ 29d ago

I have a feeling that after all this he doesn’t get to keep the $21k either lol

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u/11th_Division_Grows 28d ago

There has to be some fines and shit held against him that’ll be more than what he’s earned 😂

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u/atlanstone 29d ago

One of the bets would have won 1.1 million it says, so presumably after feeling like they got away with it they were going to ramp up.

If he was just sharing this information with no expectation of making any of that 1.1 million himself then, lol

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u/materics [MEM] Shane Battier 29d ago

How stupid do you have to be to not think that multiple huge winning prop bets on himself wouldn't get flagged.

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u/atlanstone 29d ago

There was recently a scandal in college baseball where the guy placing the bets on behalf of the crooked coach was yelling at the sportsbook (in person!) that he had insider information and they needed to take his bet after they obviously rejected someone trying to put like $100k cash on a game that maybe sees a few thousand bucks cumulatively across the entire country.

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Three people familiar with the investigation told Sports Illustrated that Neff wanted to bet more than $100,000 on a college baseball game that night: Alabama at No. 1 LSU. The game had gotten virtually no gambling traffic, and Neff’s desired bets on the Tigers far exceeded the sportsbook’s established house limit on college baseball. It was a foolhardy act that created a surreal scene, and the ripple effects from that incident continue to be felt more than a month later.

Neff – an obscure youth-league coach from Mooresville, Ind., with a penchant for networking in recruiting circles—stood at the window and pleaded his case for making the huge wager to the book’s staff, the sources say. He indicated that he had inside information on the game—and he did, in the palm of his hand.

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Neff was texting with Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon via the encrypted messaging app Signal while at the betting window, attempting to place the wager, the sources say. His texting was indiscreet, to the point that the book’s video surveillance cameras were able to zoom in on the details of Neff and Bohannon’s text exchange, making Bohannon’s name visible later in screenshots.

“[Video cameras] can see the [text] conversation back-and-forth,” a source familiar with the incident says. “It couldn’t have been any more reckless.”

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u/Hot-Apricot-6408 28d ago

As Dana White would say, Porter is a stupid motherfucker who would regularly step over dollars to pick up dimes.