The NBA world was rocked this week by allegations of Raptors participant Jontay Porter betting on himself throughout NBA video games.
The youthful Porter is below investigation by the NBA after a number of situations of betting irregularities over the previous couple of months, ESPN revealed earlier this week.
There are two video games the league is particularly wanting into from January 26 and March 20 of this season.
Jontay is the brother of Nuggets ahead Michael Porter Jr., who on Wednesday after the Nuggets’ 104-97 loss to the Suns at residence, got here out and defended his youthful brother.
“I’ve recognized my brother my complete life,” MPJ stated. “I do know what kind of dude he’s and I do know he’s excited to play basketball, and I extremely doubt he would do something to place that in jeopardy.”
After the allegations have been made public, Jontay’s previous was additionally uncovered, which features a lengthy historical past of exploring inventive methods to become profitable.
Jontay’s brother went on to clarify how sports activities betting has considerably taken over the sport of basketball and he’s undecided methods to really feel about it.
“Yeah, particularly the previous couple of years you hear individuals within the crowd saying what they want you to attain tonight or what they don’t need you to attain,” he stated. “Each evening you’re disappointing somebody. You’re disappointing individuals should you rating an excessive amount of as a result of they could have wager on the below, and also you’re disappointing individuals should you didn’t rating sufficient.
“So, it’s part of the sport now. I believe that it’s clearly a harmful behavior. It’s a harmful vice for individuals. You recognize, the love of cash is the foundation of all evil. So, I believe that though it’s a factor, we as gamers simply have to simply accept that. We receives a commission some huge cash to play this sport, and I do know these individuals, these followers, they need to make some cash, as properly.
“It’s positively one thing that has type of taken over the sporting world – I don’t know if it’s a very good factor or a nasty factor.”