Following a league investigation, which revealed that Jontay Porter had given sensitive information to sports bettors and placed wagers on games, the NBA suspended Porter for life.
Porter, a two-way player for the Toronto Raptors, is the second player Commissioner Adam Silver has suspended from the league due to rule violations. In 2014, Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, was the other. When the league became aware of odd betting patterns about Porter’s play in a game on March 20, the inquiry got underway.
The NBA was informed by the league that Jontay Porter had provided better information about his health before that game, and another person, who was reportedly an NBA bettor, wagered $80,000 on the possibility that Porter would miss the points that were assigned to him in parlays via an online sports book. $1.1 million would have been gained on the wager.
Porter withdrew from that game after just a few minutes, citing sickness, and his numbers did not match the parlay’s totals. The NBA opened an inquiry after the wager was placed on hold and never paid out.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Previously Cautioned About Jontay Porter’s Accusations
Last Monday, Silver warned that Porter’s alleged actions constituted a “cardinal sin” in the NBA. Porter hasn’t said anything since the inquiry started, and he never returned to the Raptors’ lineup after being declared out of the season for all Toronto games due to personal issues.
In addition, the league found that Jontay Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr., wagered on NBA games with a minimum of thirteen betting accounts. The bets were placed in increments of $15 to $22,000; $54,094 was staked, yielding a payment of $76,059 or net gains of $21,965.
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According to the NBA, Porter was not involved in any of those bets. However, three of the bets involved several game parlays, one of which saw Porter place a bet on the Raptors to lose. Those three bets were all lost.
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