The NBA is hoping that Jontay Porter’s lifetime ban is the final playing scandal the affiliation has to face.
In line with ESPN, the league is discussing adjustments to prop wager menus with its accomplice sportsbooks.
The discussions have gone so far as discussing the banning of “below” wagers for particular gamers, however there are apparently considerations that unlawful playing might enhance with out such a market.
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A basketball on the court docket subsequent to an NBA brand throughout a break within the first half of a 2023 NBA Summer time League recreation between the Portland Path Blazers and the Houston Rockets on the Thomas & Mack Middle on July 7, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
“Since states started legalizing sports activities betting in 2018, we’ve got labored carefully with betting operators in addition to integrity monitoring organizations to place in place important monitoring and reporting programs in order that we’re greatest positioned to determine potential betting anomalies and to behave to guard the integrity of our recreation,” an NBA spokesperson stated in an announcement to ESPN.
Porter acquired a lifetime ban on April 17 after the NBA present in an investigation that he had disclosed confidential info to sports activities bettors and wager on video games in violation of league guidelines. The NBA prohibits gamers from betting on the league or any of its properties.
The league stated an investigation found earlier than “the [Toronto] Raptors’ March 20 recreation, [Jontay] disclosed confidential details about his personal well being standing to a person he knew to be an NBA bettor.”
Jontay Porter, #34 of the Toronto Raptors, warms up earlier than the sport in opposition to the Portland Path Blazers on the Moda Middle on March 9, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. (Alika Jenner/Getty Pictures)
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“One other particular person with whom Porter related and identified to be an NBA bettor subsequently positioned an $80,000 parlay proposition wager with an internet sports activities ebook, to win $1.1 million, wagering [Jontay] would underperform within the March 20 recreation.”
He solely performed three minutes within the March 20 recreation, claiming to have been sick. The $80,000 prop wager was frozen and never paid out.
The NBA stated it discovered that, from January to March of this 12 months, whereas Jontay was both with the Raptors or its G League staff, Raptors 905, he positioned “a minimum of 13 bets on NBA video games utilizing an affiliate’s betting account.”
The NBA brand is seen on a backboard earlier than the sport between the Denver Nuggets and the Utah Jazz at Ball Enviornment on October 30, 2023, in Denver, Colorado. (C. Morgan Engel/Getty Pictures)
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