So Porter got a lifetime ban and is now being charged with a felony…
Meanwhile all the nfl players that got busted got a 1 year suspension and were allowed to return to the nfl. Hmmmmmmm
Seeing as though Porter was a terrible player… it seems as though they are making an example out of him.
There is a big difference between an NFL player betting on a game, and an NBA player helping to determine the outcome of a bet.
Had any of those nfl players did the same thing that Porter did, they would never be back in the NFL.
You’re probably right. I do think Porter being a fringe NBA player is a factor. No way he’s the only guy doing it.
The hypocrisy born out of the marriage of sports gambling and the league’s veneer of gaming propriety is only going to get more awkward.
Maybe. My comment is based on what is known. Not what is supposed.
Yep non stop gambling ads here in Canada. It’s out of control. Live in game betting odds updated throughout entire games.
Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
— Donald Rumsfeld on sports gambling
I need better friends for I have none that talk that way and I would be thoroughly entertained by an acquaintance who did.
Hey you, come gamble and spend all your money at LIVE CASINO CANADA! But listen, if you have a problem, call 1-800-GETHELP bc we care about you and you also broke now so we can’t squeeze anymore money out of you.
Personally i think it’s evil.
100 percent accurate brother. Create the problem then pretend to care.
That is definitely a factor. But try not to carry the NBA’s water by comparing the suspension to NFL suspensions. The NBA put out those talking points. They know the difference. Porter was actively throwing games towards betting lines. And it wasn’t even the winners and losers of games. It was player prop bets on his own performance.
And that is another reason why he is being made an example of. The gambling establishments do not want players feeling as if they can have connections to bets in games they are playing in. In one of the stories that flagged Porter was a friend of his placed a multi-leg parlay bet of $80k that involved Porter. Part of the bet was Porter hitting the UNDER along with some other bets. The bet would have paid out over $1M. Porter magically checked himself out of the game “injured” after 3 minutes. The bet got frozen and never paid out because…who the fudge places an $80k bet involving a no-name player like Jontay Porter? There were several instances of player prop bets on Jontay Porter being unusually high…the big money took the under…and Porter checked himself out of the game after only a few minutes. And those bets ended up being the single biggest winners out of bets on any other player that day.
Yea for sure. Real alarm bells going off at that bet. If it’s a much smaller bet it would have worked to perfection. They got greedy.
What’s funny is I have made good money placing bets on guys like Kalif Raymond. Some guys have stats that back up a certain performance level, but their betting line has to be lower because they are no-name players (to other fans). A typical prop bet for Kalif is OVER/UNDER 1.5 receptions. He has hit the OVER in 24 out of the last 30 games. I know because I cashed in on them. If he was a bigger name player his OVER/UNDER with the same stat history would be more like 3.5. That would hit less than half the time but because of the “name” the money would still be on the OVER.
He’s no pete rose
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