NBA commissioner Adam Silver today dropped the hammer on former Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter by disciplining him with a lifetime ban from the league. Porter is the perfect bit player for Silver to make an example of in order to dissuade more prominent NBA players from even thinking about getting involved with influencing or betting on NBA games.
The league found that Porter, 24, was “disclosing confidential information to sports bettors” and “limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes.”Porter, who split time between the Raptors and their G League affiliate, also placed at least 13 bets on NBA games from January through March of this year; none of those bets included games in which he played, but he did bet a parlay that included a wager on the Raptors losing.