NBA bans player for life over online sports betting

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The NBA has permanently banned Toronto Raptors guardant Jontay Porter from the league for violating its gambling rules, the league said successful a statement connected Wednesday. According to an interior probe conducted by the NBA, Porter stake connected NBA games, disclosed confidential accusation to different gamblers, and adjusted his information successful definite games to power the result of definite bets.

The league started looking into Porter aft a March 20th crippled against the Sacramento Kings successful which Porter played for conscionable 3 minutes. Porter near the crippled aft saying helium felt ill. Ahead of that game, Porter told “an idiosyncratic helium knew to beryllium an NBA bettor” astir his wellness status, according to the NBA’s statement. Another idiosyncratic past enactment an $80,000 parlay connected the game, betting that Porter would underperform. The sports betting operators and an enactment that monitors gambling markets brought the antithetic bets to the NBA’s attention, and the sports publication froze the $80,000 wager, which would person different paid retired to $1.1 million.

According to the investigation, Porter besides stake connected astatine slightest 13 NBA games utilizing an associate’s relationship aft signing with the Raptors. None of them were games helium played in, but 3 progressive a azygous Raptors game. In total, Porter wagered $54,094 during that timeframe, resulting successful a $76,059 payout, the league claims.

Porter had an progressive VIP FanDuel relationship earlier signing with the Raptors successful December of past year, Action Network reported. Multiple sources said Porter stake millions of dollars connected that relationship betwixt 2021 and 2023 portion playing connected 3 antithetic NBA G League teams. Those bets didn’t impact immoderate NBA oregon assemblage hoops games, 1 root told Action Network.

In September 2020, Porter began posting astir gambling, banal trading, and cryptocurrency connected X nether the relationship @TayTrades11, Daily Hive reports. The relationship has been mostly dormant since 2023.