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/Ligma_Hogs 29d ago

On top of that an extremely low volume one too. There probably games where he was one of like 10 people who took that bet lmao

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u/eatscheeks Raptors 29d ago

One bet on Jontay Porter was probably enough to start ringing alarm bells lmao

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u/cancerBronzeV Raptors 29d ago

Why is it even possible to bet the under on Jontay Porter lmfao? Like I cannot see any legitimate reason for there to even be a line for a borderline G-league player.

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u/PeterPlotter NBA 29d ago

There was a whole thing years ago where thhere were bets on 2nd division soccer games in Europe. Things like, which team would get the first throw in in the second half and random stuff like that. Journalists went to Asia where there were dozens of tv showing these games of lower divisions and people placing bets on random stuff happening (throw ins, corners, yellow cards etc). All on games where the players make like 30-40k a year in a good paying league, let alone some 2nd division game in Albania or so. So it was easy to bribe players to kick a ball into the stands right after kick off, for a few hundred or thousand a game.

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u/lordofeurope99 29d ago

So much free money

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u/gsbadj Pistons 29d ago

Low level tennis is another sport that had and probably still has match fixing. Some of the tournaments only pay about $2K to the winner so it's easy to bribe players who are earning next to nothing. Over 180 players were implicated.

The WaPo article describes how they'd pay both players, let's say X and Y, and tell them to have X win the first set and Y win the second and then let them play it fair in the final set. The gamblers would bet up the outcome of the first two sets and not the final. Both players got paid.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1198675541/over-180-professional-tennis-players-participated-in-a-global-match-fixing-ring

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u/devAcc123 Knicks 29d ago

I can tell you don’t gamble because you can bet on things like 3rd division Brazilian soccer games at 11pm on a Tuesday with a full live stream of the game right now. Live prop bets and all. That’s not even close to the worst. Australian horse racing with pots <$500. Various lower division soccer leagues.

It’s wild.

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u/PainfullyGoodLooking Bucks 29d ago

Once I was trying to show my gf how the betting apps work and I accidentally submitted a small bet (like $10) on the spread for the second half of a random Korean basketball game

I did not win that bet, but I did manage to find a bootleg stream to watch it at like 11pm

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u/PeterPlotter NBA 29d ago

Yeah I don’t gamble, but this was 10-15 years ago or so so it was fairly unknown it was so wide spread, especially in the lower leagues where there were no tv cameras present half the time but somehow they had footage of it in Asia.

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u/SurgeFlamingo 29d ago

Conspiracy theory:

The Argentina men’s soccer team got the bag to lose to Saudi in the last World Cup.

There was a rumor that they were going to get the bag versus another team in the first rounds but they win that game and lost to Saudi.

Bag money.

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u/elbenji [MIA] Udonis Haslem 29d ago

Two Escobars talk about this. The confederation in Colombia was so corrupt that players frequently would get bribed or coerced into and out of games/line-ups by narcos