[Woj] Toronto Raptors center Jontay Porter is out of the lineup and a subject of an NBA investigation into irregularities on prop betting involving him, sources tell @DavidPurdum, @ESPNWindhorst and me.

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1. This is not ideal

   Edit: my personal opinion of his father is a scum bag

   That said if he is a proper grifter they insulated MPJ from this, he makes way too much money not to.

   Fucked tho, I was hoping Mike was absolutely gonna pull his weight as a star this playoffs and this is a stupid distraction

2. Yikes.

3. Smartest Porter brother

4. can someone more versed in gambling terminology ELI5 what “irregularities on prop betting involving him” might refer to?

5. Wtf how stupid do you have to be ? After all those injurys and beeing out of the league multiple times you would think he would be gratefull for the situation he found himself in now.

   Money could hardly be the reason …but it was only a matter of time untill players started doing this .

   Sports has moved into the background, gambling has become more important than the sport. No matter where you look everything is infested by betting advertisment, broadcasts are opened with odds before they even say welcome .

6. Between this and his other brother – yikes.

7. Who would’ve thought that the constant promotion of gambling would lead to such scenarios.

8. i really hope this doesn’t mess up mpj 🙁

9. Betting is sponsoring NBA so if they allowing it that much players and refs gonna bet even more.

   NBA is greedy as fuck for money.

10. Crap.  I was rooting for him

    That’s the second Porter brother that’s been in trouble. 

11. I feel bad for MPJ. He doesn’t deserve to go through this.

12. The fuck is with this family man my god. First the one brother who killed somebody and now this?

13. You just know Adam Silver is about to railroad this dude. Gonna make an example out of him. Silver is just happy they were able to catch some nobody doing it before a Pete Rose situation happens. This guy is never going to play basketball again.

14. Breaking this with the Shohei press conference is a choice

15. Jontay seems like an OK dude, so hopefully this is just a misunderstanding. Feel bad for Mike that his bros keep making drama in his life.

16. It seems pretty obvious that big money going on under prop bets for Jontay Porter suggests insider betting.

    I wouldn’t be too quick to presume that he’s directly in on it. He could be. Or he could just have someone he talks to about how he’s feeling, who got inside info of like “I feel like crap today, I’ll try to play but might call it after the first shift” and then they put in a set of under parlays without him knowing.

17. If these allegations are true, it’s a wildly stupid thing for him to have done. Even an unexceptional basketball player can expect to make *millions* of dollars during their career. Blowing that on a few tens of thousands of dollars is idiotic.

18. Jontay would not be so rich as to never be tempted to do this sort of thing, but theres so many other things this could be.

19. jontay about to get superfan vicki’d from the nba

20. Gotta be responsible for your own actions, but still, fuck sports betting. Every sport has suffered because of it.