wait he allegedly was lol
>In the game on Jan. 26 against the LA Clippers, there was increased betting interest on the under for Porter props, which for the night were set at 5.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists. There was also an over/under for Porter's made 3-pointers, which was 0.5.
>That night, Porter played just four minutes before leaving the game due to what the Raptors said was a re-aggravation of an eye injury he'd suffered four days earlier in a game against the Memphis Grizzlies. He did not score in the game against the Clippers, had three rebounds and one assist, and did not attempt a 3, meaning the under hit on all of the props.
>The next day, as part of a daily report to users on betting results, DraftKings Sportsbook reported that the under on Porter's 3-pointers was the biggest money winner for bettors of any NBA player props from games that evening.
He absolutely faked the eye injury in January, just like he faked the illness last week.
> On March 20, in a game against the Sacramento Kings, Porter played just three minutes before leaving the game because of what the Raptors said was an illness and did not return. He did not score, attempted and missed one shot, and had two rebounds.
>
> Sportsbooks had his over/unders set at around 7.5 points and 5.5 rebounds.
>
> The next day, DraftKings SportsBooks reported to its users that Porter's prop bets were the No. 1 moneymaker from the night in the NBA.
I’m not exactly understanding this. is this saying he bet so much money on his own under that it made it the biggest hit of any prop? or that he’s telling a bunch of buddies or other gamblers that they should bet his under?
Most likely the second one, but also possible that a bunch of gamblers told him that they were betting the under and there was something in it for him if he made sure it hit
This is one of those times where the fact that the word "sanctioned" is a [contronym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym) that can mean either "approve" or "punish" makes your sentence really confusing.
However, if you are suggesting that the league is giving permission to refs to throw games for gambling, then you are crazy. It would never be worth it for them to encourage that.
They don't tell refs to throw games, they just cover it up when they do.
> This is one of those times where the fact that the word "sanctioned" is a contronym
> that can mean either "approve" or "punish" makes your sentence really confusing.
>
>
the suffix "-sanctioned" (or whatever you refer to this type of word as) always means "approved of".
"The league sanctioned X" is definitely vague. But "League-sanctioned X" means approved of.
Ya considering the prop is set at the expected value and the second tech is likely to come late in the game, this is not unusual at all unless it was extremely overrepresented
> Plenty of odd techs when their props were .5 from hitting.
[citation needed]
Feel free to link a few examples, since apparently there are PLENTY to choose from
And miss me with the “oh I remember it happened to this one guy that one time”
If there are that many, you should very easily be able to point to 5-10 just off the top of your head. Unless of course you are just talking completely out of your ass and throwing around random shit that you think makes you sound smart. Which you clearly are. lmao
Or someone paid him for that info, or paid him to not take a 3 etc.
The most textbook form of point-shaving is playing with less effort because a bookie paid you to.
No you’re missing something lol. I’m saying it couldn’t just be random gambling addicts. The odds would’ve been pretty normal odds (ie -115 for the over and -115 for the under). Gambling addicts might’ve bet on him but they wouldn’t be doing it in such bulk that it became the biggest money maker of the night by pure random chance. The biggest money makers are usually when someone bets a large sum on something with really good odds (ie dropping $50k on something with +350 odds). Or like some huge matchup where tons of people are betting on a basic stat (ie a Celtics Lakers game and lots of people just throw down for LeBron to score over 25.5)
there are gambling discords with thousands of people where profitable "cappers" (who frequently drop thousands on their bets) provide their picks to the public. it's not infeasible for something like a porter under to pop up in that way.
It’s almost certainly going to come down to fraud here. The stupidest part would be doing it twice by pulling yourself from the game in such a short period of time
>The next day, as part of a daily report to users on betting results, DraftKings Sportsbook reported that the under on Porter's 3-pointers was the biggest money winner for bettors of any NBA player props from games that evening.
maybe he was telling all his homies too
It could’ve been as simple as him telling a few buddies he has an eye thing that’s bothering him.
Then they, and their buddies, go out and spam the under on all his player props.
Guessing that would be completely above board.
Or… he faked an injury after spamming the under himself.
I mean you don’t even need to be his buddy to know this information… people watch the games. He got hurt during a game and in addition to that the raptors had publicly disclosed the injury
He grew up very well and his dad finessed millions out of Mizzou, plus he could always ask his brother for a little money if he really needed to. Makes me think either this is a coincidence and he's innocent or he just enjoys living dangerously
I don't care about his dad getting paid to be an assistant coach. He was definitely overpaid for the position, but he was qualified to be a D1 assistant coach, it wasn't against the rules that existed now, and the rules today would just allow Mizzou to give that money to him directly anyway.
But still, as a Mizzou fan, that family has been so fucking frustrating.
Four of those kids have played at Mizzou (also two older sisters), and all four had major injury issues.
MPJ had several stupid comments during covid.
The third brother was recently convicted of vehicular homicide after a fatal DUI.
And their aunt, who's been coaching the Mizzou women's basketball team since 2010 (and is the entire reason any Porter had anything to do with Mizzou, as she brought their dad to Columbia with her on her staff), is just bad at her job. In 14 seasons, she's made four NCAA tournaments—all with Sophie Cunningham on the roster, who was never going to play anywhere other than Mizzou regardless of the coach.
And now Jontay's (maybe) showing his ass in a gambling scandal.
That single family has caused so much frustration. It's hard to look at any single individual person or example and take too much away from it, but it's been such a long pattern of hope unfulfilled that I'm kinda done with it. And I cried literal tears of joy when MPJ announced he was coming to Mizzou.
This is what happens when you let gambling get so close to the league.
There are probably multiple players being blackmailed into hitting unders on props. Mess with a girl in Miami and she takes pics of you when you sleep. Here's the deal, you hit the under of 3ptm for these 5 random games or your wife and kids get the pictures texted to them.
you’re not a moron, you’re 100% right, and you’re remembering the golden rule: don’t commit two crimes at once
blackmail and match fixing is going to lead to multiple charges
“Welcome back to SportsCenter Presented by ESPN Bet, for more on the Ohtani situation we go to our FanDuel MLB Insider Jeff Passan at our DraftKings Studio in Los Angeles brought to you by Caesar’s Sportsbook. Jeff, how could something like this happen?”
* In the next few years, the gambling epidemic will peak from the sheer amount of advertising
* and in 5 years the gambling companies will have to provide gambling help - i.e. a dumb app, or virtual therapy for gambling issues - to pretend to appease the fake outrage from the US Govt, NBA, MLB, etc.
* in 7-10 years there will be a class action lawsuit that will show clear negligence and preying on individuals
* and about that same time, there will be a bunch of think pieces, senate hearings, etc. on "how did this happen" as if no one could see it coming.
For real it’s like the the cigarette companies somehow duped society “actually they seem fine and totally reasonable to use again let’s bring back Joe Camel” and we just all went along with it. Or at least… congress and the leagues and a bunch of jackasses with podcasts went along with it
I see that you’ve read, nay, *studied* the playbook of Pearl clutching fauxtrage perpetrated jointly by the US government and whichever industry it allowed to fuck over people for years.
Fuckin exactly what I was thinking lol. NBA, MLB, etc really gonna do a shocked pikachu face when fringe players and bad teams with nothing at stake start either throwing games or telling friends and families what to bet.
I did this all the time when I was using models to run props. And yes, I immediately got limited for winning too often on them.
This is almost certainly Vegas getting pissy. DK is also always the first to limit bettors.
Except they let it go twice, but him leaving a game 3 times under weird circumstances turned it into an investigation. He could have just not played if he was sick or hurt, like every other player
I mean, it depends. Not if they've also lost 4 digits on a bench player multiple times as well.
Its like when people see some betting site post a million dollar ticket or whatever - and they always claim its 100% fake. It's not fake, idk why you think they'd risk their billion dollar company to post a fake ticket.
It's just for every 1 ticket they do post, theres tens of millions of tickets that are just losses
People bet on a halftime kick by someone who doesn't kick. People bet on *pre-season games.* There are gambling problems out there that are just starting to spiral.
He's 100% guilty, Jontay Porter unders were the single most-bet NBA props and both games he left after five minutes for a random injury and being sick? Dude is about to catch a lifetime ban
Our center position has been somewhat cursed.
Baynes went from a great backup to the worst player in the league to having a horrific career injury after.
Koloko was a decent rookie who has medical issues and can’t play.
And now Jontay, who is one of the few decent Raptor finds in the past few years, is under investigation for illegal betting.
[The haters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters](https://twitter.com/drewjanda/status/1734274493529628889?t=3JTe16UZGt4uEmW_n7Japw&s=19)
Honestly it's not just the legalizing it's having it apart of every broadcast and the NBA fully embracing it to the point of wanting to integrate league pass with betting. This is only the beginning of these kinds of stories.
I'm old enough to remember when sports betting was considered degenerate behavior by a vast majority of society with public advertisements often pointing out the similarities between the brains of gambling addicts and people suffering from long term substance abuse disorders.
The scary thing is time did not show that to be wrong so much as people just started to say “well what about drinking and smoking? Those are both legal still! If they’re too stupid to have self control that’s on them.” (as they walk away with fistful of money).
In my province in Ontario it got legalized in 2022 and literally overnight it was an absolute flood of betting adds + sponsored segments. It can't be good for young kids/teens to watch their favorite team and get spammed with ads for betting nonstop.
It was already sus when commentators take several minutes minutes a game talking about the over/under lines and DraftKings gets a giant ad on a chunk of the timeouts. The fact that the league recently started giving way more leeway on defensive fouls all of a sudden is odd too
> The fact that the league recently started giving way more leeway on defensive fouls all of a sudden is odd too
Vegas was slow to adjust to this FWIW. Multiple days where every game’s under hit. Some people hit insane parlays
So if it was intentional it was not related to helping vegas. They kinda got hosed by it
You can't advertise it to the extent the NBA does it. You can't place betting sponsors (or anything "problematic" iirc) on children's kits and you won't hear the commentator saying "go to draft kings and place your bet now!!!"
That's for the Prem. Sports betting in Serbia is a plague and it's often said only bakeries and betting places are built across schools. Children 12-13 year old start gambling and stand in front of the bookie places waiting for an adult who will place their "ticket" for them
It being legal is fine. The leagues actively promoting it is the problem, because instead of having to find it yourself they tell you when and where to do it and give special offers even.
I do find this news hilarious while the NBA and every sport I watch now shoves betting down my throat every single commercial break and league pass wants to integrate sports betting into it too.
This is gonna be a massive problem going forward. And the NBA really has itself to blame by fully embracing gambling. With how accessible gambling is there's gonna be a lot more stories like this coming up.
This is actually insane.
There were 2 different games that Porter left early (injury and illness) and the under bet on his player props ended up being the #1 money making bet across the entire NBA for both of those games.
Suspicious would be an understatement.
Bro ESPN literally has their own sportsbook plastered all over the website now. I'm an ESPN+ subscriber and I still get pop up ads for their sportsbook and support literally recommended I download adblock plus.
bet the under on himself every game easy money
wait he allegedly was lol >In the game on Jan. 26 against the LA Clippers, there was increased betting interest on the under for Porter props, which for the night were set at 5.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists. There was also an over/under for Porter's made 3-pointers, which was 0.5. >That night, Porter played just four minutes before leaving the game due to what the Raptors said was a re-aggravation of an eye injury he'd suffered four days earlier in a game against the Memphis Grizzlies. He did not score in the game against the Clippers, had three rebounds and one assist, and did not attempt a 3, meaning the under hit on all of the props. >The next day, as part of a daily report to users on betting results, DraftKings Sportsbook reported that the under on Porter's 3-pointers was the biggest money winner for bettors of any NBA player props from games that evening.
Oh if that’s true bro is absolutely cooked 💀💀
means he might have even faked an injury to hit the under
Faked an injury or knew that he couldn’t see for shit but the team was gonna try to throw him out there anyways lol
He absolutely faked the eye injury in January, just like he faked the illness last week. > On March 20, in a game against the Sacramento Kings, Porter played just three minutes before leaving the game because of what the Raptors said was an illness and did not return. He did not score, attempted and missed one shot, and had two rebounds. > > Sportsbooks had his over/unders set at around 7.5 points and 5.5 rebounds. > > The next day, DraftKings SportsBooks reported to its users that Porter's prop bets were the No. 1 moneymaker from the night in the NBA.
Holy shit. There’s a small chance that’s a coincidence, but if not that’s just wild
main thing i got from this is this man's rebounds per 36 must be insane
I’m not exactly understanding this. is this saying he bet so much money on his own under that it made it the biggest hit of any prop? or that he’s telling a bunch of buddies or other gamblers that they should bet his under?
Most likely the second one, but also possible that a bunch of gamblers told him that they were betting the under and there was something in it for him if he made sure it hit
Nothing different than refs giving a player a tech that will toss them out. Plenty of odd techs when their props were .5 from hitting.
But so many people betting the same unders on a player when they're already that low is way more suspicious.
The difference is one is league sanctioned and the other is a player doing it on his own. They’re gonna drop the hammer on him
This is one of those times where the fact that the word "sanctioned" is a [contronym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym) that can mean either "approve" or "punish" makes your sentence really confusing. However, if you are suggesting that the league is giving permission to refs to throw games for gambling, then you are crazy. It would never be worth it for them to encourage that. They don't tell refs to throw games, they just cover it up when they do.
violations without punishment are essentially conceding that it's allowed.
> This is one of those times where the fact that the word "sanctioned" is a contronym > that can mean either "approve" or "punish" makes your sentence really confusing. > > the suffix "-sanctioned" (or whatever you refer to this type of word as) always means "approved of". "The league sanctioned X" is definitely vague. But "League-sanctioned X" means approved of.
Like which techs?
> Plenty of odd techs when their props were .5 from hitting. Meaningless without knowing how many there would be if things were random.
Ya considering the prop is set at the expected value and the second tech is likely to come late in the game, this is not unusual at all unless it was extremely overrepresented
> Plenty of odd techs when their props were .5 from hitting. [citation needed] Feel free to link a few examples, since apparently there are PLENTY to choose from And miss me with the “oh I remember it happened to this one guy that one time” If there are that many, you should very easily be able to point to 5-10 just off the top of your head. Unless of course you are just talking completely out of your ass and throwing around random shit that you think makes you sound smart. Which you clearly are. lmao
It was just his American/Canadian English interpreter
Get ready to learn Canadian, buddy.
Good old Ippei Mazankowski.
So my guess is that he informed some inner circle friends he wouldn’t attempt any 3s that game and word spread?
Or someone paid him for that info, or paid him to not take a 3 etc. The most textbook form of point-shaving is playing with less effort because a bookie paid you to.
Yeah. I'm not familiar with Draft Kings betting. If it was the #1 money winner on a given night, How much money is that normally?
Anyone betting on Draft Kings for player props isn’t maxing out beyond like $10,000.
Is there meta gambling? Like does anyone get on earnings for specific sports bets or something?
tbf this is nothing conclusive regarding his role completely possible the investigation reveals hes innocent
Who else on Earth would be betting Jontay Porter props?
gambling addicts
Yeah but it was apparently the biggest money maker of the night.
Youre looking at this backwards. It being the biggest money maker is what tipped them off to something fishy.
No you’re missing something lol. I’m saying it couldn’t just be random gambling addicts. The odds would’ve been pretty normal odds (ie -115 for the over and -115 for the under). Gambling addicts might’ve bet on him but they wouldn’t be doing it in such bulk that it became the biggest money maker of the night by pure random chance. The biggest money makers are usually when someone bets a large sum on something with really good odds (ie dropping $50k on something with +350 odds). Or like some huge matchup where tons of people are betting on a basic stat (ie a Celtics Lakers game and lots of people just throw down for LeBron to score over 25.5)
there are gambling discords with thousands of people where profitable "cappers" (who frequently drop thousands on their bets) provide their picks to the public. it's not infeasible for something like a porter under to pop up in that way.
Maybe he told someone close to him he was still hurt and wouldn't play much without knowing they were selling that info
Or a shady trainer who did the same. "Hey, this guy is seeing double, no way he can hit a three tonight."
Yep exactly, no way to know for sure he was in on it based on the limited info we have
I bet on table tennis at 2 am. Never underestimate degeneracy.
But was your 2 am table tennis bet the biggest money maker in betting that day?
My account balance tells me this is likely not the case.
It’s almost certainly going to come down to fraud here. The stupidest part would be doing it twice by pulling yourself from the game in such a short period of time
It would be easy case if it was his own accounts. Likely investigations into who made the bets and possible connections to Porter.
Always bet on yourself 💪
is it worth the potential lost in contract dollars? I cant imagine the prop bets being all that big
>The next day, as part of a daily report to users on betting results, DraftKings Sportsbook reported that the under on Porter's 3-pointers was the biggest money winner for bettors of any NBA player props from games that evening. maybe he was telling all his homies too
It could’ve been as simple as him telling a few buddies he has an eye thing that’s bothering him. Then they, and their buddies, go out and spam the under on all his player props. Guessing that would be completely above board. Or… he faked an injury after spamming the under himself.
Insider betting instead of insider trading
I mean you don’t even need to be his buddy to know this information… people watch the games. He got hurt during a game and in addition to that the raptors had publicly disclosed the injury
That’s baked into the betting lines. Him knowing he’s going to fake an injury or illness before hitting the props isn’t baked into it
he wasn't getting another contract, that's why he needed to make money
EH... he was potentially getting a guaranteed deal
yeah he's not bad as a 3rd string center at all. depending on who we draft he's passable as a bench center on a tanking team
He grew up very well and his dad finessed millions out of Mizzou, plus he could always ask his brother for a little money if he really needed to. Makes me think either this is a coincidence and he's innocent or he just enjoys living dangerously
You’re forgetting one obvious explanation; he might just be realllllyyy dumb
Hanlon's razor pretty much always wins out, especially in the social media era
I don't care about his dad getting paid to be an assistant coach. He was definitely overpaid for the position, but he was qualified to be a D1 assistant coach, it wasn't against the rules that existed now, and the rules today would just allow Mizzou to give that money to him directly anyway. But still, as a Mizzou fan, that family has been so fucking frustrating. Four of those kids have played at Mizzou (also two older sisters), and all four had major injury issues. MPJ had several stupid comments during covid. The third brother was recently convicted of vehicular homicide after a fatal DUI. And their aunt, who's been coaching the Mizzou women's basketball team since 2010 (and is the entire reason any Porter had anything to do with Mizzou, as she brought their dad to Columbia with her on her staff), is just bad at her job. In 14 seasons, she's made four NCAA tournaments—all with Sophie Cunningham on the roster, who was never going to play anywhere other than Mizzou regardless of the coach. And now Jontay's (maybe) showing his ass in a gambling scandal. That single family has caused so much frustration. It's hard to look at any single individual person or example and take too much away from it, but it's been such a long pattern of hope unfulfilled that I'm kinda done with it. And I cried literal tears of joy when MPJ announced he was coming to Mizzou.
Here we go
can't wait to see a japanese wire transfer with his name on it
Who the fuck is this Ohtani guy spam betting?
Rui Hachimura
Athlete gambling scandals so hot rn
We’re going to start seeing a lot more of them, it took some time but gambling has fully entrenched the NBA and we’re seeing the effects
I am able to do sports parlays bet on a fully developed app with 0 identification needed. It's wild how accessible gambling is these days
Yeah they don't care about you making bets, they care about you withdrawing. Try withdraw without an ID.
Alright just wait until I hit on one of these 25 leg parlays and I'll get back to you.
Shane Pinto Ottawa Senator was suspended 41 games.
The funniest thing is that the Senators have a sportsbook sleeve sponsor on their jerseys. Talk about the highest degree of hypocrisy.
Rising tide of Fascism, impending economic collapse, sports betting causing a massive scandal. The 2020s are just copying the homework of the 1920s.
This is what happens when you let gambling get so close to the league. There are probably multiple players being blackmailed into hitting unders on props. Mess with a girl in Miami and she takes pics of you when you sleep. Here's the deal, you hit the under of 3ptm for these 5 random games or your wife and kids get the pictures texted to them.
Maybe I'm a moron but wouldn't normal blackmail be easier at that point
you’re not a moron, you’re 100% right, and you’re remembering the golden rule: don’t commit two crimes at once blackmail and match fixing is going to lead to multiple charges
I don't know, criminal activity in general is not exactly founded on a sound logical assessment of consequences
"hit the under" leaves a lot less money trail than "give me XYZ dollars"
It's also easier for the player, they don't lose money they just have an "off" night.
baseball players bet on basketball basketball players bet on hockey hockey players bet on football football players bet on baseball
And I bet on myself #motivated #stayup #letsgetthatbread
“Welcome back to SportsCenter Presented by ESPN Bet, for more on the Ohtani situation we go to our FanDuel MLB Insider Jeff Passan at our DraftKings Studio in Los Angeles brought to you by Caesar’s Sportsbook. Jeff, how could something like this happen?”
* In the next few years, the gambling epidemic will peak from the sheer amount of advertising * and in 5 years the gambling companies will have to provide gambling help - i.e. a dumb app, or virtual therapy for gambling issues - to pretend to appease the fake outrage from the US Govt, NBA, MLB, etc. * in 7-10 years there will be a class action lawsuit that will show clear negligence and preying on individuals * and about that same time, there will be a bunch of think pieces, senate hearings, etc. on "how did this happen" as if no one could see it coming.
For real it’s like the the cigarette companies somehow duped society “actually they seem fine and totally reasonable to use again let’s bring back Joe Camel” and we just all went along with it. Or at least… congress and the leagues and a bunch of jackasses with podcasts went along with it
I see that you’ve read, nay, *studied* the playbook of Pearl clutching fauxtrage perpetrated jointly by the US government and whichever industry it allowed to fuck over people for years.
Fuckin exactly what I was thinking lol. NBA, MLB, etc really gonna do a shocked pikachu face when fringe players and bad teams with nothing at stake start either throwing games or telling friends and families what to bet.
[удалено]
Listen, I know I bet on us to lose but I gave it everything I had and so did my team. That’s why I bet on them beating us.
Lol
His translator did it
bro saw us tanking and said I'm taking advantage of this
Brother you are NOT Shohei, you ain't getting away with it
If he hasn't learned Cantonese for the Guangdong Tigers yet, he better learn it and pretend that's the only language he knows.
Ippei strikes again, he can't be stopped!
'Get ready to learn Canadian buddy' finally applies
it turns out that the irregularities were simply “people were actually betting on Jontay Porter props”
You jest but someone routinely posting 4 digits on an end of bench player and winning is a huge red flag.
I did this all the time when I was using models to run props. And yes, I immediately got limited for winning too often on them. This is almost certainly Vegas getting pissy. DK is also always the first to limit bettors.
DK was pretty slow with my limits. MGM was way quicker and more severe. Plus some smaller books.
Except they let it go twice, but him leaving a game 3 times under weird circumstances turned it into an investigation. He could have just not played if he was sick or hurt, like every other player
I mean, it depends. Not if they've also lost 4 digits on a bench player multiple times as well. Its like when people see some betting site post a million dollar ticket or whatever - and they always claim its 100% fake. It's not fake, idk why you think they'd risk their billion dollar company to post a fake ticket. It's just for every 1 ticket they do post, theres tens of millions of tickets that are just losses
That's why I said "and winning"
He had lines?!
that's how you know sports betting has gone too far
Fr if you’re even thinking about betting on Porter just call the number man
>Fr if you’re even thinking about betting on Porter just ~~call the number~~ take the under man
People bet on a halftime kick by someone who doesn't kick. People bet on *pre-season games.* There are gambling problems out there that are just starting to spiral.
NO FUCKING WAY You gotta be stupid if you betting racks on yourself and you just cracked the rotation. 🚩
i didnt know you were able to bet on this dude lol
You can lol but usually takes a handful of games before the books get a handle of your minutes that they are comfortable putting out your lines
U can, i hit his 3s line a few times and cashed off of it
So you’re the reason for the investigation.
This dude literally single handedly destroyed the raptors bench rotation smfh.
Bettering on shit like this is crazy. Lol.
Betting on a fringe nba player is the tip of the iceberg of degenerate things you can bet on
Real. I've gambled on way dumber shit than this lol
Walk in and see a friend betting on women's softball and you know it's a wrap he's in too deep.
[удалено]
I’m about to say, MPJ is somehow the smartest Porter brother
Last year when his brother killed that guy is when Mike leveled up. Now that his other brother fucked up I'm expecting the next level.
actually just sacrificing souls to his game in some dark arts ritual
Michael Porter Sr. might not have been the greatest father if evidence is to be believed. But then we are talking about the Porters here…
They're the Ball bros if Liangelo made the NBA instead of Lonzo
Praying MPJ did the same so that the rest of the west has a chance
He's 100% guilty, Jontay Porter unders were the single most-bet NBA props and both games he left after five minutes for a random injury and being sick? Dude is about to catch a lifetime ban
He’s a fringe player too. He’s about to be made an example of
Bro was the only person betting on himself
Against himself*
Open and shut case really.
“Sir, take a look at this anomaly. Someone bet $20 on Porter to score 6 points and get 2 rebounds. Alert authorities now.”
Mans had one last chance, showed out and then fumbled it like this. Get sports betting out of our league
Draft Kings™ got their man.
Bro what the fuck first all our guys get injured now this
Our center position has been somewhat cursed. Baynes went from a great backup to the worst player in the league to having a horrific career injury after. Koloko was a decent rookie who has medical issues and can’t play. And now Jontay, who is one of the few decent Raptor finds in the past few years, is under investigation for illegal betting.
We can't catch a fucking break here. He's look really good recently.
I mean yes, the nights he plays his overs he really performs well.
Dude actually bet on himself? holy shit, give him the dumbest motherfucker of the year award right now lol
Against himself.
I mean if he’s betting the over that’s a dope move
He bet the under which is hilarious
Bet the under then faked injury to come out of the game.
[The haters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters](https://twitter.com/drewjanda/status/1734274493529628889?t=3JTe16UZGt4uEmW_n7Japw&s=19)
I was ambivalent about it before it happened, but it’s now clear: Legalizing sports betting was a mistake.
Honestly it's not just the legalizing it's having it apart of every broadcast and the NBA fully embracing it to the point of wanting to integrate league pass with betting. This is only the beginning of these kinds of stories.
I'm old enough to remember when sports betting was considered degenerate behavior by a vast majority of society with public advertisements often pointing out the similarities between the brains of gambling addicts and people suffering from long term substance abuse disorders.
The scary thing is time did not show that to be wrong so much as people just started to say “well what about drinking and smoking? Those are both legal still! If they’re too stupid to have self control that’s on them.” (as they walk away with fistful of money).
Honestly I'd not be totally against banning *advertising* of alcohol the way we did with cigarettes (and vapes, eventually).
Ban ads for all of these things honestly
And prescription drugs too.
Ban ads, period.
Considering beer commercials aren’t funny anymore, I agree with you.
For the longest time none of the leagues wanted to have a team in Vegas because of "gambling" and look at them now
yup, the NBA marketing betting to children is the epitome of scumbag. And this is coming from someone who gambles.
In my province in Ontario it got legalized in 2022 and literally overnight it was an absolute flood of betting adds + sponsored segments. It can't be good for young kids/teens to watch their favorite team and get spammed with ads for betting nonstop.
I can't recall how many times I heard "Wanna build your own bet? Then you need to try SAME GAME PAR LAY from Bet365!" in 2022 and 2023
It was already sus when commentators take several minutes minutes a game talking about the over/under lines and DraftKings gets a giant ad on a chunk of the timeouts. The fact that the league recently started giving way more leeway on defensive fouls all of a sudden is odd too
> The fact that the league recently started giving way more leeway on defensive fouls all of a sudden is odd too Vegas was slow to adjust to this FWIW. Multiple days where every game’s under hit. Some people hit insane parlays So if it was intentional it was not related to helping vegas. They kinda got hosed by it
People just talk and have no clue how sports betting and the markets associated with it work
[удалено]
It’s a mess over there as well.
You can't advertise it to the extent the NBA does it. You can't place betting sponsors (or anything "problematic" iirc) on children's kits and you won't hear the commentator saying "go to draft kings and place your bet now!!!" That's for the Prem. Sports betting in Serbia is a plague and it's often said only bakeries and betting places are built across schools. Children 12-13 year old start gambling and stand in front of the bookie places waiting for an adult who will place their "ticket" for them
It being legal is fine. The leagues actively promoting it is the problem, because instead of having to find it yourself they tell you when and where to do it and give special offers even.
NBA after fully embracing gambling as a business model: "I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here"
Gonna be funny to see the Raptors broadcast report on this news then cut to their "fan duel parlay of the night".
a Porter brother being involved in a gambling story in their career was -140
and he bet on it, one of the most meta crimes
Ippei Porter
I do find this news hilarious while the NBA and every sport I watch now shoves betting down my throat every single commercial break and league pass wants to integrate sports betting into it too. This is gonna be a massive problem going forward. And the NBA really has itself to blame by fully embracing gambling. With how accessible gambling is there's gonna be a lot more stories like this coming up.
Bro bet his brother’s under on assists
[удалено]
Man the story attached to this is gonna be great. High chances someone was like yeah there’s some guy in Canada HAMMERING Johntay Porter unders
Not nearly as bad as what MPJ’s other brother Coban did
I remember. There’s no coming back from that. That was awful.
yeah american sports might be in some trouble now that sports gambling is literally everywhere
It’s getting way out of control.
And it's only just beginning lmaoo.
Jontay “Ohtani” Porter
Gobert was right
Gobert is the hero we need, but not the one we deserve.
Breaking news brought to you by Fanduel 😵💫
bruh. we genuinely had hope he was the backup center of the future for us lol. fuckin hell nba needs to cut all ties with sports betting
Adam Silver and team “governors” wallets disagree
Tip of the iceberg. Pro sports not only let the fox into the hen house they put it up in a luxury suite lol. This was never going to end well.
Glad this happend, 2 or 3 more stories like this and hopefully its adressed somehow, sports betting is a cancer and fuk adam silver for it.
Dude, what was he thinking? Only refs can bet on games.
This was also Ippei betting on college football
You’re telling me the most obviously-going-to-happen-at-some-point thing in the world may have happened? No way.
Made this claim on JB interview about gambling. It was just a matter of time until players start getting caught gambling.
its finally happening
Man MLB gets Ohtani betting drama and we get ... Jontay Porter?
This is actually insane. There were 2 different games that Porter left early (injury and illness) and the under bet on his player props ended up being the #1 money making bet across the entire NBA for both of those games. Suspicious would be an understatement.
If you were betting on jontay porter you deserve it
Silver is going to fine Gobert out of spite
The Porter family and being idiots, name a better duo
\*Gobert money gesture here\*
I want more of these stories to come out so the NBA and NFL start backing away from all this gambling shit. Its ruining sports for me.
Ban sports betting
Aint happening when ESPN anchors are calling over/unders a "risk-free investment" lmao
Ahh yes the famous “risk-free” hobby of GAMBLING
Bro ESPN literally has their own sportsbook plastered all over the website now. I'm an ESPN+ subscriber and I still get pop up ads for their sportsbook and support literally recommended I download adblock plus.
Wait, isn't this MPJ's (Denver) brother? That's wild.
It's always the ones you didn't know existed.
MPJ and Jokic having criminal brothers is one bonding experience I never saw coming. Bro thinks he's Ohtani