The NBA has banned Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter for life due to gambling!!
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WOW!! Banned for life because he bet on NBS games. According to the report I read an NBA investigation found Porter “violated league rules by disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes, and betting on NBA games.”
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They did the right thing,imo. Gotta make an example of him so this hopefully doesn't happen again and it probably will happen again.
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Reminds me of the NCAA BB scandal with point shaving years ago.
Life is about decisions.
Why this guy would get involved in anything like this is moronic on a biblical scale
The MLB could learn a thing or two here.
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https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-bans-jontay-porter-for-life-after-investigation-reveals-raptors-forward-violated-league-gambling-rules/
Stupid
Totally agree but bgr will say we are both mean spirited 😂
The ex-Mafia captain Michael Franzese is featured on quite a number of YouTube videos. To me the videos are very entertaining. On one video, Franzese explains in detain how the mob sets up a sports player to rig games. College players are perhaps their favorite marks.
Just a hunch but I would guess that this guy probably did this in college as well, but just didn't get caught.
Hey! No. I agree with you here. I'm not entirely sure what 'a biblical scale' means though, so I'm assuming it means 'big time oopsy'.
It's pretty big
like hard to top the stupidity big
i never implicitly trusted the NBA again after watching G6 of the Western Conference finals between the Lakers and Kings over 20 years ago. most blatantly rigged contest i've ever seen in any sport since i've been alive. i'll never forget toward the end of that game when LA was nearing extinction -- Kobe Bryant almost broke Mike Bibby's jaw and the next thing you know, he (Kobe) was at the charity stripe shooting 2. the Lakers were awarded 27 such shots in the 4th Q of that game.
27 free throws.
one quarter.
one team.
it was truly disgusting.
of course they won that game, won game 7, won the Finals, and it was a ratings explosion. had the Kings won that Game 6 and moved on as they rightfully deserved to, the NBA would have been eating off the dollar menu at McDonald's.
since that time, pro hoops has done nothing to earn my trust. there have been corrupt refs and now discreditable players are coming to light. with the proliferation of gambling, i can almost guarantee that there's someone, somewhere pulling a Jontay Porter on a nightly basis.
i personally like the NBA, but it is a dirty ass sport and has been for a long time
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"proliferation of gambling"
I don't follow European sports at all, except to sometimes see a headline about it from the sports websites I follow. But gambling scandals are like a cottage industry over there. The obvious being soccer because it is so huge there. But surprisingly, from what I recall, tennis has had some of the worst gambling scandals.
Gambling is so prevalent there, it wouldn't surprise me if their grade schools teach courses in techniques on how to be a better gambler. 😆
If you're referring to maths... it surprises me more that our grade schools don't teach that! Ha!
Steve Wynn once said casinos are for those with bad math. 💸
Tough month for Michael Porter Jr.
Coban Porter, the younger brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for a drunken driving crash that killed a woman in Colorado last year.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-gambling-scandal-explained-padres-tucupita-marcano-gets-lifetime-ban-for-baseball-bets-others-punished/
Astonishing that these guys didn't learn from Pete Rose what will happen to them. And these guys were likely if not definitely making a lot more money from MLB than Pete ever did.
They should have done what smarter ballplayers do when they get the gambling bug. Just enjoy a poker game amongst themselves.
I recall reading that some of the Phillies players of the 1980's, including the broadcasters, used to have a poker game going every chance they got, even on the airplane. LOL
I think poker games on flights are the norm from what I've read
Nobody cares if they gamble just don't be an idiot and bet on the sport you play
Pretty simple concept unless you are a legit degenerate gambler
I'm fairly sure that all new MLB players get a direct verbal warning not to bet on baseball. I'm not sure as to what extent the details are told to them as to why. But if it isn't directly illustrated why, it's obvious that it can harm or destroy the integrity of the game, and possibly the league itself.
This I know for sure having been in the world of business for a long time, and MLB of course is a business. If an employee does something that directly affects the integrity of the business, it usually happens quick, that employee is fired.