The fallout from Jontay Porter’s lifetime NBA ban, plus Champions League madness
by The Athletic
The Athletic— The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! I hope you make the real playoffs today. While You Were Sleeping: The are the Play-In team For a while there, it looked like Miami was going to do it all over again. To be clear, they could still pull off another bait-and-switch — becoming a juggernaut only once the postseason begins — but it will be difficult. Regardless, the Heat are reliably the team doing the...
@HipHopWired—Betting On Yourself: Toronto Raptors Jontay Porter Slapped With Lifetime Ban For Violating NBA’s Gaming Rules. Source: Xinhua News Agency / Getty / Jontay Porter Jontay Porter f ed around and found out. The now-former two-way player for the Toronto Raptors gambled his money and his NBA career away. NBA.com dropped the news yesterday that Jontay Porter, brother of Denver Nuggets superstar Michael Porter Jr., has been slapped with a lifetime ban for violating the league’s gaming rules. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver came down with the hammer on Porter after the league wrapped its investigation and...
Fortune—The NBA just issued its first gambling ban in 70 years, booting Jontay Porter for committing the league’s ‘cardinal sin’. The Toronto Reporters forward-center feigned sickness and injuries in order to control his own prop bets.
TODAY.com—NBA issues lifetime ban against Jontay Porter for betting on games. The NBA has handed down a lifetime ban to Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter, accusing him of betting on games, passing health information to gamblers and claiming illness to influence a wager. The league says Porter made more than $20,000 in profits.