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The NBA is hoping that Jontay Porter's life ban is nan past gambling ungraded nan relation has to face.
According to ESPN, nan league is discussing changes to prop stake menus pinch its partner sportsbooks.
The discussions person gone arsenic acold arsenic discussing nan banning of "under" wagers for circumstantial players, but location are apparently concerns that forbidden gambling could summation without specified a market.
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A hoops connected nan tribunal adjacent to an NBA logo during a break successful nan first half of a 2023 NBA Summer League crippled betwixt nan Portland Trail Blazers and nan Houston Rockets astatine nan Thomas & Mack Center connected July 7, 2023, successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
"Since states began legalizing sports betting successful 2018, we person worked intimately pinch betting operators arsenic good arsenic integrity monitoring organizations to put successful spot basal monitoring and reporting systems truthful that we are champion positioned to place imaginable betting anomalies and to enactment to protect nan integrity of our game," an NBA spokesperson said successful a connection to ESPN.
Porter received a life prohibition connected April 17 aft nan NBA recovered successful an investigation that he had disclosed confidential accusation to sports bettors and stake connected games successful usurpation of convention rules. The NBA prohibits players from betting connected nan convention aliases immoderate of its properties.
The convention said an investigation discovered earlier "the [Toronto] Raptors’ March 20 game, [Jontay] disclosed confidential accusation astir his ain wellness position to an individual he knew to beryllium an NBA bettor."
Jontay Porter, #34 of nan Toronto Raptors, warms up earlier nan crippled against nan Portland Trail Blazers astatine nan Moda Center connected March 9, 2024, successful Portland, Oregon. (Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
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"Another individual pinch whom Porter associated and known to beryllium an NBA bettor subsequently placed an $80,000 parlay proposition stake pinch an online sports book, to triumph $1.1 million, wagering [Jontay] would underperform successful nan March 20 game."
He only played 3 minutes successful nan March 20 game, claiming to person been sick. The $80,000 prop stake was stiff and not paid out.
The NBA said it recovered that, from January to March of this year, while Jontay was either pinch nan Raptors aliases its G League team, Raptors 905, he placed "at slightest 13 bets connected NBA games utilizing an associate’s betting account."
The NBA logo is seen connected a backboard earlier nan crippled betwixt nan Denver Nuggets and nan Utah Jazz astatine Ball Arena connected October 30, 2023, successful Denver, Colorado. (C. Morgan Engel/Getty Images)
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