Jontay Porter has been banned for life from the NBA after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and bet on games.
Porter, who was a two-way player for the Toronto Raptors, is the second person to be banned from the league by Commissioner Adam Silver for violating league rules. The other was now-former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2014.
What Porter did?
According to a league report, Porter supplied “confidential data to sports bettors, excluded his self participation in one or more games for betting purposes, and betting on NBA games.”
According to Fox News, the NBA investigated and discovered that from January to March of 2024, the famed okayer Porter was either with the G League team Raptors 905, and he put about 13 wagers on cash-rich basketball games using a betting account of a known accomplice.
Porter’s bets on his associate’s account ranged from roughly $15 to a stunning $22,000, for a total of half a grand of 100,000 grand of US dollars, and resulting in approximately $21,965 in net wins, according to an NBA report.
NBA players are prohibited from betting on NBA games by league regulations. The NBA stated that the investigation is ongoing and that additional information may be discovered.