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 underneath 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 trying 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 entire life,” MPJ stated. “I do know what sort 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 had been made public, Jontay’s previous was additionally uncovered, which features a lengthy historical past of exploring artistic 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 unsure tips on how to really feel about it.
“Yeah, particularly the previous couple of years you hear folks within the crowd saying what they want you to attain tonight or what they don’t need you to attain,” he stated. “Each night time you’re disappointing somebody. You’re disappointing folks in case you rating an excessive amount of as a result of they could have wager on the underneath, and also you’re disappointing folks in case 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 folks. You understand, the love of cash is the basis of all evil. So, I believe that although 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 folks, these followers, they need to make some cash, as effectively.
“It’s positively one thing that has form of taken over the sporting world – I don’t know if it’s factor or a nasty factor.”
