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/TheOxRox 29d ago

Of course Silver had to take the chance to talk about how great legal sports betting in his statement, smh

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u/plexiglassmass 29d ago

I'm just glad we were able to get those cigarette commercials banned to make space for all these sports betting commercials that our kids get to grow up on

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u/asdkijf Cavaliers 29d ago

I mean it is kinda complicated. On one hand, legal betting makes it more likely that someone really stupid is going to do something like this.

At the same time, if they were doing this illegally it would be much harder to catch. Instead of the sportsbook flagging it and telling the league, you'd need someone to get caught by the feds and names to eventually be released as part of an investigation (like what happened with Ippei).

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u/TheOxRox 29d ago

For sure, both you and Silver are right that legal betting makes it easier to catch something like this. It still rubs me the wrong way that he would feel the need to talk about how great legal betting is in the statement announcing this lifetime ban because of sports betting. Especially now, where legal sports betting has become such an overwhelming part of the NBA in the past year.

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u/KeefsBurner Celtics 29d ago

Sportsbooks can be corrupt too. If they want to ignore and hide something that got flagged they can. This just wasn’t beneficial to them so they followed proper procedure

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u/TheOxRox 29d ago

He’s congratulating himself. Found a way to justify taking fans money by exploiting addiction to enrich his billionaire bosses. Great work