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RE: It's safe to say he is doing better than Jontay Porter (nm)
Posted on: April 26, 2024 at 14:56:37 CT
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As much as the 24-year-old’s lifetime ban from the NBA effectively slams the door on his stateside pro basketball career, if Porter had tried to manipulate the system back in the PASPA/Bradley Act days, he’d have wound up dead. Swindling $1.1 million from a connected bookie is like begging to be found frozen stiff inside a meat truck or under the LIRR tracks in Richmond Hill, presumably while the soundtrack swells with the instrumental portion of “Layla.”
Luckily for Porter, it’s been six years since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the prohibition on sports gambling, a ruling which made it possible for the former Raptor to avoid having to do business with an unregulated book. In lieu of taking the Big Dirt Nap, Porter may now spend the remainder of his allotted three-score-and-ten trying to make sense of a scheme which netted him all of $21,000—a less-than-princely sum in light of the estimated $2.81 million he earned as an NBA backup.
In a sense, the NBA also got off easy. Stupidity and deviousness may make for strange bedfellows, but Porter’s rattlebrained exploits all but guaranteed that he’d be found out before any lasting damage could be done to the integrity of the game. It’s one thing to underperform in order to try and secure a $1.1 million payoff on someone else’s $80,000 parlay—in retrospect, the simple act of placing prop bets on Jontay Porter probably set off all sorts of silent alarms at the sportsbook—but it’s another thing altogether for a professional athlete to maintain a Twitter account (@TayTrades11) that was at least in some measure dedicated to favoriting and retweeting sports-gambling touts. (Just two years ago, Porter went the extra mile and verified his pro-wagering handle via his eponymous account. Really.)
As much as the 24-year-old’s lifetime ban from the NBA effectively slams the door on his stateside pro basketball career, if Porter had tried to manipulate the system back in the PASPA/Bradley Act days, he’d have wound up dead. Swindling $1.1 million from a connected bookie is like begging to be found frozen stiff inside a meat truck or under the LIRR tracks in Richmond Hill, presumably while the soundtrack swells with the instrumental portion of “Layla.”
Luckily for Porter, it’s been six years since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the prohibition on sports gambling, a ruling which made it possible for the former Raptor to avoid having to do business with an unregulated book. In lieu of taking the Big Dirt Nap, Porter may now spend the remainder of his allotted three-score-and-ten trying to make sense of a scheme which netted him all of $21,000—a less-than-princely sum in light of the estimated $2.81 million he earned as an NBA backup.
In a sense, the NBA also got off easy. Stupidity and deviousness may make for strange bedfellows, but Porter’s rattlebrained exploits all but guaranteed that he’d be found out before any lasting damage could be done to the integrity of the game. It’s one thing to underperform in order to try and secure a $1.1 million payoff on someone else’s $80,000 parlay—in retrospect, the simple act of placing prop bets on Jontay Porter probably set off all sorts of silent alarms at the sportsbook—but it’s another thing altogether for a professional athlete to maintain a Twitter account (@TayTrades11) that was at least in some measure dedicated to favoriting and retweeting sports-gambling touts. (Just two years ago, Porter went the extra mile and verified his pro-wagering handle via his eponymous account. Really.)
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RE: It's safe to say he is doing better than Jontay Porter (nm) - FIJItiger MU - 4/26 14:56:37