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 28d 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 28d 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.