GET UP | Boston are really the biggest frauds in NBA – Tim Legler on Celtics stunning loss to Hawks

GET UP | Boston are really the biggest frauds in NBA – Tim Legler on Celtics stunning loss to Hawks

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 us three-point shot here they’re going to have a 30o lead roow 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 opened 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 we’re in a

Tie game here in the final three just watch Jason 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 a 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 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 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 three-point shot 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 in odds on 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 Oh 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 againsts 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 be in the NBA finals despite the fact that Milwaukee has narrowed the Gap yeah this is by far the best team in the Eastern Conference but to win it all you still

Have the nuggets out there looming in a couple other teams in the west that are very interesting to me all right stay close by a lot more basket we got so much going on today a lot more Hoops including a story from yesterday that could more it’s on Sportsman like

Presented by Progressive Insurance CC back with us later in the week along with Michelle smallman having Cohen with you so jonte Porter is a player on the Toronto Raptors he his brother is more wellknown than he is Michael Porter Jr the world champion Denver Nuggets so jonte Porter is now the subject of

Investigation by the NBA for Adrien wowski Brian wior and David pum our ESPN uh betting analyst and the reason why perum explained yesterday Amber and Ian 7p to 10p Eastern here on ESPN Radio these irregularities were on prop bets in bing Porter and those are over under

On amount of points he scores in the game or number of rebounds such things like that and he being a lowprofile player if there is a significant rise in interest in betting on him all of a sudden something kind of red flags go up at sportsbooks and that’s kind of what

Happened here there were two games one in January and one in March uh where Sports books detected IR regular betting interest on player props people were coming in there wanting to bet lots of money on the under on his props in both of those games Porter left with be

Playing less than 10 minutes the first game he ided a lingering eye injury the second game which was just last week Thursday against the King Kings he said he had the flu and in both of those gam Sports books said they took a lot of unusual betting interest on his player

Proms fascinating and I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way I would say 90 plus percent of the audience probably never heard of jontay Porter prior to this story which means when you have significant betting coming in on a player that is not LeBron James or

Giannis or yic or Tatum or any of the super or his brother for that matter Michael Porter Jr or any of the Superstar star or starters in this league this is a guy that’s a two-way player which basically means for those who are unaware you have a contract

Simultaneously with the NBA team and its g-league team and there’s a certain amount of games you could play for the NBA because you go back and forth It’s a developmental contract he unders came in he played less than 10 minutes in each of them left one game with an ey injury the

Other game with a flu or sickness whatever it is this is as suspicious as could be I’m not accusing Smalls I’m just saying this is unbelievably suspicious it is incredibly suspicious with the activity that was happening with bets surrounding border and then the subsequent results not only are the

Sports books flagging stuff like this Evan but sports betting is monitored by dedicated Personnel from each NBA team they have data scientists that are focused on different anomalies that are happening in sports betting and possible Integrity issues and they’re working with third party Integrity monitors so these players when they’re told you

Can’t do all of this stuff they have checks and balances not only with just the sports book but the NBA is monitoring this stuff as well so if in fact Porter was involved in this in some way shape or form I don’t know how he thought he was going to get away with

Something like this when you have all of these peoples that are making sure that this stuff is up to Snuff essentially and that there’s no Integrity issues with betting and sports let me be real clear when I say this I think this is a phenomenal thing for the NBA why I think

This is excellent because this was bound to happen at some point this was bound to happen where a player was going to try to take advantage of the opportunities that he would have to be able to bet on games or have friends bet on prop bets whatever it may be have

Influence over influence over the results and what this tells everyone is that if you do it we’re going to notice it if you do it we’re going to find out if we if you do it we have people that are going to tell us immediately when

Calvin Ridley now of the Titans had his situation with gambling with the um with the Atlanta Falcons and got suspended on the on the 17 parlay or whatever it was whoever it is that he bet with notified the NFL immediately irregularities are spotted absolutely immediately as crazy

As this may sound the gambling industry has no choice but to be clean if it’s legal it has no choice but to be clean because there are so many people that want to shut it down and want to tell you it’s not clean that specifically whether it’s ESPN bet or DraftKings or

FanDuel or any of the sites that are out there if they notice an irregularity around a random NBA player and betting unders and that guy on a prop bet and that guy does not even stay in the game for a long period of time it is their entire business if they don’t actually

Notify authorities for that so while I’m not suggesting it’s good that an NBA player would gamble on a sport obviously or the sport and the game that he’s playing in I think it is great that the NBA could sit there and say we have measures in place for that Rogue player

That if he allegedly may have gone Rogue we are going to find you we’re going to find you quickly we’re going to come down on you quickly and you may never play again in this league and if this this is proven to be true and jontay Porter actually had involvement in this

And I’m not suggesting he did I’m saying it’s very suspicious I’m not accusing he will never play another game in the NBA they will ban him for life and message to some extent will be sent it’s like you know the NFL with concussions all these years they they went unnoticed in

A way a rise in number of concussion cases actually means the NFL is doing this right and that you’re noticing them and you’re preventing them and you’re making sure that those players don’t go back in the game the NBA and all sports have to realize when these things happen

If they are to happen and noticing it right away I think Smalls is a great thing for the sport it does send a warning shot to everyone else around the league because players as well as all League employees are prohibited from betting on NBA bets including prop bets

Right so violation of this policy could include fine suspension and possible termination of contracts so you think if Porter is found to be um involved in this in any way sh perform done termination of contract that they’re going to take the this ban for Life most serious measure to to make a statement

Here ban for life you don’t I think it would be smart of them to do that you’re right to set the standard and sorry offense jonte Porter you’re not good enough for them to think otherwise it’s not as if this happened to a marquee name as yeah I don’t even want to

Suggest the Marquee name would have done this same thing I don’t want to throw anyone out there right so let’s say name that we could say right now that you would all know if he bet on sports or bet on the NBA how about this it’s not

The same as what sh Otani is being accused of in baseball the star power is not the same exactly right it is a lot harder for Major League Baseball to sit here and investigate knowing oh boy if we find this out that allegedly possibly he had anything hypothetically to do

With this we’re going to have no choice but to Pete rosem that’s a nightmare for this sport an absolute nightmare I I almost wonder as crazy as this sounds if Adam Silver the commissioner of the NBA wants this to be true because then you can ban him then

You can say look we are going to find you and ban you for life if you do this if you bet over unders on basketball if you are going to influence any of this in any way shape or form it is easy for us to figure it out because we are

Actually tied in Legally to all of these different gambling companies because they know if they have illegal activities they are going to be shut down for ever billions on the line for these companies absolutely this only works if people who are going to place these bets and that are actively

Wagering think that everything is up to code and that the Integrity of each league and the Integrity of this business is intact because if you thought that people were influencing the results why would you gamble so it puts all of this under a cloud of Suspicion

And and makes it more of a fragile entity which is the exact opposite of what sports wants what the betting World wants but I think you’re right in that if this is found out to be true that they should approach this with the most severe punishment possible because that

Tells everyone else around the league players included here’s a tangible example of what is going to happen if you mess with us or try to push us on this you are going to be out of this game forever it’s a privilege to play in this league and if you violate this rule

Which is set in stone you are not going to be able to play anymore and think of about this tonight I believe we have on ESPN the Lakers and and the bucks if I’m not mistaken that is a game that everyone’s going to want to keep eyes on

Right even if LeBron doesn’t play we’re talking about a March 20th game between the Sacramento Kings and Toronto Raptors with Jon Porter they’re going to find you if you do things like this and as crazy as it may sound to some people because we all grew up at people around

Our age Smalls thinking like oh gambling is like dirty and icky and I’m not saying it hasn’t been but the legalization of it has made ESPN bet DraftKings fand whomever have no choice but to be as legal moral and and have the Integrity that that these businesses

Have more than most walks of life they don’t have a choice if if some other company had some sort of fraud going if a credit card company had fraud going on with one of the people using the credit card Visa doesn’t shut down right it just doesn’t like but if there’s fraud

Going on with one of these gambling sites and it’s not caught or it’s caught and then kind of shed to the side the entire business goes down because people are looking to shut these businesses down yeah for whatever ridiculous reason if this is true this guy is done for

Life and I actually think this may be a good thing for the NBA because it proves hey and the Calvin Ridley thing for the NFL if you do it we’re going to find you we’re un sportsmanlike presented by Progressive Insurance He He He Hell He He Hello

GET UP | Boston are really the biggest frauds in NBA – Tim Legler on Celtics stunning loss to Hawks