Basketball Player Jontay Porter Banned for Life from NBA Due to Sports Betting Scandal

Jontay Porter will never be able to set foot in the NBA again for the rest of his career. The League announced it a short while ago, after completing the investigations into the case of sports betting which involved the Toronto Raptors big man and older brother of Michael Porter Jr.

The NBA determined that Porter was in cahoots with some bettors, allowing them to win amounts (probably then shared) even higher than a million dollars, focusing on its statistics. Among the factors that convinced the League to inflict a lifetime ban on the player was the fact that some bets were on the Raptors’ defeats.

As written by the NBA in communicated in which he announced the suspension of Jontay Porter, the player, even before the offending match on March 20th, had reported information on his health to a well-known bettor, thus leading him to bet on the unders linked to the performance of the Toronto big man . Furthermore, a person close to Porter would have bet 80,000 dollars (winning 1.1 million) on the player’s under in the famous match of March 20, in which he remained on the pitch for only 3 minutes before going out for a unspecified malaisefinishing with 0 points and 2 rebounds.

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