GET UP | What a comeback 🤯 – Tim Legler “SHOCKED” by Hawks stage 30-point comeback to stun Celtics

GET UP | What a comeback 🤯 – Tim Legler “SHOCKED” by Hawks stage 30-point comeback to stun Celtics

Last night where’s legler legler the Celtics they’ve won seven straight right they’re the best team in the NBA right and when we see Al Horford make a three-point shot here they’re going to have a 30o lead on the road against Atlanta last night up 30 put him on ice

Right greeny it’s pretty much over if you’re the Boston Celtics against the Atlanta Hawks but what was actually over was the Celtics evening the Hawks just chipping away chipping away chipping away they came all the way back from 30 down yeah they saw a little bit of the

Door open at the end of the half they cut it from 30 to to 18 going into the locker room that gave them a little bit of hope that they could maybe get back in this game to start the third quarter it’s exactly what they did I mean we’re

In a tie game here in the final three just watch Chason Tatum though by the way oh throwing that one down he would score 37 Celtics trying to hang on but in the end it was Atlanta turning defense into offense yeah and they look they started stringing shots together

This can be infectious for a team once you start to see the basketball G from the three-point line Atlanta got hot Boston just could not get it done offensively to secure the game DeAndre Hunter is going to knock down a three off a rebound here and Hawks come all

The way back and win playing without Trey young they win it 120 to 118 a game again in which they trailed by 30 points now look the Celtics I think they actually did wrap up the one seed last night in the East anyway despite the loss but whether they did or they didn’t

They’re so good it’s hard to make a big deal out of any loss but you blow a 30 point lead doesn’t feel good teams were 152 and0 when they were up 30 this year in the NBA prior to last night so that’s what a 30-point lead does now listen

Leads disappear at a greater rate in the NBA than they ever have before because of the prevalence of the three-point shot both ways because Boston they got cold from the three-point line we know that they’re a three-point dependent team that is to me their one vulnerability at times they can hunt

That shot a little bit too much and if they string together a series of misses you allow teams to get back into the game that are a high volume three-point shooting team like Atlanta was last night so it was almost this perfect storm I’m not going to read too much

Into this like oh have we found the vulnerability and the weakness for the Celtics because they blew that lead no I think they took their foot off the gas they got distracted they lost concentration they were outscored by 24 points in 5 and a half minutes to start

This to end the second quarter and the first four minutes of the third quarter that’s what we’re talking about here a very short period of time they didn’t even turn the ball over that much greeny but every time they did it ended up in a

Point shot I get it I’m not going to try and make too big a deal out of it but let me ask you this our friends at ESPN bet say the Celtics are an oddson favorite to win the East they’re minus 140 so are you taking the Celtics or the

Field I’m taking the field because the Denver Nuggets exist if the Denver Nuggets weren’t in the league the East I thought it was to win the NBA win the East minus 140 to win the East oh I’m taking them I’m absolutely taking the Celtics against to win the East they’re

Going to be in the NBA Finals I have no doubt barring some sort of injury to one of their major components the Boston Celtics are going to to be in the NBA Finals despite the fact that Milwaukee has narrowed the Gap this is by far the best team in Eastern Conference but to

Win it all you still have the nuggets out there looming and a couple other teams in the west that are very interesting to me all right stay close by of a lot more basket we got so much going on today a lot more Hoops very important as legalized gambling has

Become more and more popular in the United States and more and more a part of our conversation there’s a developing story and a potential scandal in the NBA sources tell ESPN that Toronto Raptors forward jonte Porter is under investig ation following multiple instances of betting irregularities over the past

Several months the issues surround prop bets involving Porter from two different games one on January 26th and one on March 20th now I’m sure a lot of people saw this headline yesterday and aren’t fully clear on what it means so that’s our job is to try and clarify these

Things for you so let’s do it I want to bring in our gambling Insider extraordinaire David pum we’re delighted to have you here David but of course we begin with W and and and so w again for the basketball fans who were looking at this and saying I’m not really fully

Able to digest what’s going on here what do they need to know greeny that there were two games uh one in January one more recently in March uh where there was a a significant increase in irregular betting props uh on jante Porter uh that were flagged by Sports books DraftKings and another

Sports book and in those games the unders came through uh for Jon Porter in two games with which uh he left the game after playing only four minutes and after three minutes and in both of those games for DraftKings uh that the be that Jon Porter was the biggest Money winner

Among all players in the NBA on individual prop bets which are essentially picking over under uh on a player’s you know scoring rebounding assists and then in one of those cases three-point attempts and the it was flagged certainly by the gambling companies and Jon Porter has now been

Sidelined in Toronto uh the league told us that they are looking into this and certainly this has set reverberations around the NBA uh certainly the the worst nightmare for any professional League uh to have uh the suggestion of gambling in involved uh in player performance uh within a

Locker room within a game uh certainly right now this is circumstantial now the league will take a look I’m sure along with authorities uh to find out more uh if jonte Porter or anybody had any impact on you know the kind of bets that were placed as David perum reported for

Us there were people people trying to get that there were betters trying to get down bets of upwards of10 to $20,000 uh on individual Porter uh uh uh bets prop bets yeah the the idea being he’ll score fewer than x amount of points and there are people trying to

Bet an insane amount of money an abnormal amount of money on those sorts of bets relative to what you might expect and again this isn’t the it’s not LeBron James we’re talking about it’s not a player who you would normally expect people to be racing to prop bets

On so David pum again you are the expert in this area none of the rest of us are what should people know here what what what are the really important things that people should know about this situation irregularities in the market aren’t really that difficult to spot the

Bookmakers and this certainly was it here’s why betting limits on NBA PR prop while they vary by sports book and by C but they typically you can get down maybe $1,000 maybe a $2,000 to get much down you’re going to have to be a VIP with special privileg privileges well on

This January game against the Clippers in question one sports book said that it had multiple accounts trying to place bets upwards of 10,000 and 20,000 on Porter unders so you have this lowprofile player usually doesn’t get a lot of gar Garner a lot of betting interest and all of a sudden people are

Wanting to bet big on him it raised red flags and that’s when a similar situation played out last Thursday with Porter again against the Kings and bookmakers at that point we convinced something was up again in both of those games he played very few minutes before leaving the game and while David’s

Connection with us is not perfect I think you can understand what he’s saying I wanted to bring Tim into this as well because again I you played in the league and you understand the magnitude of something L this and you were saying to me before we came on here

I won’t put the words in your mouth that there would be nothing easier to engineer than something like that absolutely a role player guaranteeing basically his unders by taking himself out of the game because of a physical issue because look if if you going to

Bet on the under um and go out there and play your normal minutes well then you’re going to have to do something different in terms of the way you’re playing your coach is going to pick up on that right away it’s not like you can

Go out there and turn down a wide open three-point shot so the best way to guarantee it would be to say hey there’s something wrong with me physically I’m only going to play a few minutes so now I know for a fact I’m going to hit the

Unders on those things look there’s a lot more has to come out about the story obviously this doesn’t sound coincidental this is a massive story greany because you’re talking about anything related to sports where you feel like there’s something going into it that’s predetermined and you’re not just watching something that’s a random

Series of events and and now we’re going to bet the outcome this is a big big story this is a big problem for for the NBA and sounds like they’re going to be right on top of this there’s going to be a lot more information to come and

That’s why I wanted us to cover it here because it is that it is important and it’s important to also point out we don’t know exactly what happened yet the league doesn’t know exactly what happened yet but the investigation has begun W I’ll give you the final word

What what fill in any blanks that we’re leaving here for the fans who are trying to make up their minds what to think well I think one of the things that the league uh will want to find out was uh did jante Porter take himself out

Of the game did uh a team medical the team medical personnel decide that he couldn’t play why did he only play three minutes and four minutes in those games was it his decision uh was it uh the team’s decision those are certainly questions that’ll be asked uh but listen

This has been a concern for a lot of the league front offices coaching staffs players agents you know listen gambling has always been there uh it has always been under the surface the gambling companies will say to you that this allows it to be regulated that a blip uh

Like in this instance uh allows for uh there to be a look into it but the marketing of gambling uh the fact that it’s on the teams social media it’s in the arena that these in many cases these very young players uh could perhaps be lured into situations they otherwise

Wouldn’t have been I think that’s why there has to be constant education and constant warning that the consequences for any involvement in this would be great for any player’s career so we we’ll leave it there for the moment but again we wanted to make sure you had as

Much insight into this story as possible because it is as Tim said and I think as we all made clear here potentially very important we will keep an eye on this as that investigation continues in the mean time we’ll take a short break as we continue back to some football

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GET UP | What a comeback 🤯 – Tim Legler “SHOCKED” by Hawks stage 30-point comeback to stun Celtics