The latest on the NBA’s investigation of Jontay Porter’s betting irregularities | First Take

The latest on the NBA’s investigation of Jontay Porter’s betting irregularities | First Take

Now to a developing story in the NBA Raptors Ford jonte Porter is under investigation by the league following multiple instances of betting IR regularities over the past several months multiple sources told ESPN yesterday so the NBA is looking into some prop bets involving Porter from games on January 26th and March 20th

Players along with all League employees are prohibited from betting on any NBA events that’s including of course prop bets Tim legler back here with us and uh Shannon sharp and of course Brian windhorse uh Brian you along with David perom and W are the ones who reported

This story what is the latest on this yeah so first off there isn’t any certainty that jonte Porter actually made a wager himself what there is is a a lot of circumstantial evidence and suspicious activity primarily because as you can imagine as a player who’s on a

Two-way contract while there are uh you know betting options offered on players like Jon in games it’s very unusual to see much volume and what raised the casino’s uh alarms here and eventually was passed on to the NBA and led the NBA to launch an investigation was on the

Same night that jonte Porter had a very increased amount of betting on his prop bets way higher than you would have for any normal game twice in the last two months the same nights those happened he exited the games with previously not um on the injury report illnesses and

Injuries before both games he was not on the injury report at all and then he only made it you know in one game a little over three minutes and in one game a little over two minutes and so that is just extremely suspicious suspicious enough to the point where he

Has been taken and put on leave away from the team and the NBA is investigating um I don’t I think it I don’t think we know anything more than that right now um there’s certainly a lot to talk to team Personnel about and for the casinos to do their research on

This in a way this was the casino’s Integrity operations that caught this um that flagged this and and and led to this and I think that’s also a key factor no the casino they build money with losers money not winners money it ain’t no Integrity because had he had

Lost the casino would have never reached out to the NBA they would have never said a word it was the fact that he was in their pockets that made them Reach Out says oh what’s going on here somebody’s betting 80 th all this money on on a two-way player hell I didn’t

Even know you can bet on a two-way player and it does look suspicious all of a sudden this heavy flow comes in on a guy that’s on a two-way contract and on the under and then all of a sudden he exits the game with a non-previously disclosed a disclosed injury and it

Happens again I guess a month or 6 weeks later uh uh Wendy and so yes that Peak the Curiosity of the casino because they say hey the one thing we know you legs I don’t know how much you guys gamble but if you go to a casino and they suspect

You of Counting Cars they get you up out of there they ain’t in the business of losing money and they definitely not going to lose the money through Shady practices so that’s what this was about Wendy because had he lost that casino would have never said a word they never

Call in Integrity when they winning your money it’s only when you start to hit their pockets that all of a sudden it comes into questions but this is it seems it seems awfully suspicious to me also yeah this can’t be coincidental and look if you really think about it what’s

The best way you can guarantee a prop bet winner it’s to do exactly what he did which is you’ve got these numbers out there and the numbers are pretty low because he’s a role player he’s not going to play a lot of minutes as it is

The numbers are very low right so what do you do you play a couple minutes take yourself out that guarantees you can’t get to that number because if you played your normal minutes and you were trying to guarantee you weren’t going to get to those numbers well that’s going to look

Suspicious to the coach ex why you turning down open shots why you not running the floor you could have had a layup right there you’re not going through the glass whatever it may be so this is the perfect way to do it and this is a big problem this really is and

Look it’s it’s been caught but you can’t have any sort of visual that anything you are watching when it comes to sports is predetermined now you’ve got a problem on your hands cuz now it’s like pro wrestling right and that it can’t be that it has to be a series

Events Tak and look look these leagues now are intertwined with these betting platforms so this is this is a big deal right now and and they caught it it looks like let’s see what happens obviously a lot more information has to come out and he’s got a lot of things to

Answer to in terms of what his involvement was who were the guys that were trying to make money off of this what was the communication flow there a lot more has got to come out but certainly guys this does not look like this could be a coincidence to have

Something like this happen well one think yeah one thing I think it’s interesting is that um the average NBA salary is north of 12 million prop betting limits are relatively low for people who are professional athletes however there are some players at the bottom end of the

NBA food chain like jontay Porter again he’s on a two-way contract he’s scheduled to earn about 400,000 this year less than even the minimum salary for a first year player who’s on a full contract and so that is the area where I think the NBA has to keep special

Attention to because the risk reward you know in in case like Porter he’s had two ACL tears in his career he hasn’t played in he didn’t play in the NBA the last two years he played in the NBA in 2021 he’s basically barely hanging on to the

Edge of the league and so that’s a situation you have to watch and I also think this is something you particularly have to watch in college as well because there are players in college who may not you know be be seeing potential opportunities in in you know in professional sports and that’s always

Been the case and you know a couple of years ago guys I went to sport radar which is one of the big Sports data companies in London and I watched their integrity operation and I saw how they Track Betting um there is a real apparatus to try to watch for this but

What you’re concerned about when you hear about this is the stuff that doesn’t get caught and that’s what makes everybody uneasy I think and the thing was happening guys is that these the MLB the NBA the NFL the family sites that dra the DraftKings the uh the ESP EDS

All them are embedded and they want to keep this relationship with these sports team because the sports team they love taking their money now this what we saying now we’re going to let you know if something is known to up and up and we’re going to need you to do something

About it so it’s one hand washing the Other

The latest on the NBA’s investigation of Jontay Porter’s betting irregularities | First Take
Shannon Sharpe, Tim Legler and Brian Windhorst weigh in on Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter being under investigation by the NBA following multiple instances of betting irregularities over the past several months.
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