The NBA has reached a promise with its gaming partners to eliminate proposition bets on players who, according to reporting by The Athletic’s Joe Vardon, “make the least amount of money,” meaning mentioning players in both sides. way offer or promises 10 days.
Notably, the NBA’s sportsbooks and betting partners (FanDuel, DraftKings and BetMGM) will not place “under” bets on those players, which is obviously a reaction to Jontay Porter’s condition.
Porter, who signed a two-way honorary contract with the Toronto Raptors in December 2023, gained a full life block Soon, the league found that Porter was guilty of “disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes, and betting on NBA games.”
The reason for removing those prop bets from the board for players who don’t accumulate cash is discrete: they are those who might be incentivized to monitor their production as a way to win bets, while players who win hundreds of thousands Dollars in salaries have no reason to jeopardize their well-paying careers for a bet.
Porter earned a $56,000 date of sorts by splitting the hour between the Raptors and their G League partner.
From Atlético:
According to an NBA investigation that ended with Porter’s expulsion, Porter gave a secret tip about his condition to a person he knew to be a sports bettor before the Raptors’ March 20 game against the Sacramento Kings. A third person, connected to Porter and the unredacted recipient of the information about Porter’s status, placed an $80,000 accumulator bet to win $1.1 million, a bet that hinged on the prediction that Porter would underperform against the Kings.
To make sure the betting collision, the league discovered, Porter left the Kings’ game three minutes in, claiming he wasn’t feeling well.
The investigation also confirmed that from January to March, when games are split between Toronto and its G League partner, Raptors 905, Porter placed at least 13 bets on NBA games using the online betting account of a worker Although none of the bets were on games in which Porter played, he bet that the Raptors would lose as part of a parlay bet. Bets ranged from $15 to $22,000, for a total of $54,000.
He made about $22,000 in betting winnings, the league said.
You can see the sickness right here, and how this could happen if the league and its betting partners didn’t make good on this promise to eliminate those bets that, to be frank, are completely correct. forgiving the performance of those players incentivized to accumulate their own numbers.
Let’s say your up/under for rebounding is 2. Simple, you just take a rebound and avoid the closer ball for the short time you’re on the floor. Guess the amount you want to have, through whoever you want to have, at your bottom, and you will double or triple your entire previous salary in a single night.
It’s too simple to control, and the league is willing to anticipate any other possible Porter situation as the game takes on a central role throughout the league and its target market.
