NBA making example of Porter in attempt to ensure it never happens again | Jay On SC

TSN Raptors reporter Josh Lewenberg joins SC with Jay Onrait to share his reaction to the news that Jontay Porter has been banned from the NBA after an investigation revealed he had disclosed confidential information to bettors, and discusses if there could be any additional fallout from the situation.

[@dafroz2479]

Somebody should ban Othani.

[@videogameswithcaden7830]

So winning money because he thinks he’s not making enough money should be a life time ban but beating wife and kids is wild

[@sandboxsports5802]

Who is beating wife and kids again? Please name drop I forget

[@melissakelly5813]

Not as much winning money its fixing picks witch is illegal

[@red3here]

You saying he was beating his wife and kids?

[@sandboxsports5802]

I forgot which player was beating wife and kids can you name drop please instead of using Twitter talking points 🤡

[@wainber1]

@@red3here There's no evidence that's yet emerged that Jontay Porter is about to be charged with assault although another Porter, Kevin Jr (not likely related to Jontay), WAS charged with what NYPD alleged had been a violent assault of his then-girlfriend. KPJ would later plead guilty to a misdemeanour, avoid jail time and sign earlier this month for a basketball team based in Greece.
Far away from where KPJ is now playing, Alex Formenton (ex-Sens ex-HC Ambrì Piotta), Mike McLeod (NJ Devils), Carter Hart (Flyers' goalie) and Cal Foote (US-born Canadian Devils' d-man) were late last January charged with what police in London, Ontario (LPS) alleged had been the sexual assault of a woman in a local hotel room following a June 2018 gala that'd been meant to celebrate a gold medal Hockey Canada's World Juniors' (WJC) team had the previous winter won. None of the 5 ex-WJC players has been found guilty of a criminal offence or pleaded guilty to one.
Cal Foote, due to his Colorado birth, likely has dual American-Canadian citizenship (and as far as I know hasn't renounced his US citizenship) whilst as far as I know none of McLeod, Hart and Formenton do. Whether, should ANY of the 5 defendants be convicted, the NHL chooses to ban him for life from playing for such a team, I dunno if ANY team in that league will want to sign any such player to a new contract under such circumstances; indeed:
- Formenton, who after his original NHL contract (Sens) expired, hadn't, as of December 2022, been signed to a new NHL contract, signed with a Swiss hockey club
- because the remaining 4 all have contracts that come June will give them arbitration rights should the teams to which they are by then under contract (likely the teams to which they're still under contract, if in the NHL), instead of re-signing them before their contracts expire, extend them qualifying offers
A conviction for his role in what the LPS alleged was the sexual assault of that woman to which I referred earlier likely will mean, should the player not be Cal Foote, likely being limited to playing hockey in Canada, and likely for nowhere near as high a salary as in the NHL. Cal Foote may manage to play for a hockey club in a US jurisdiction but perhaps only in a league that doesn't contain clubs based outside Alaska, American Samoa, CNMI, Guam, contiguous US, Hawaii, Puerto Rico or US Virgin Islands.

[@wainber1]

Had the NBA not slapped a lifetime ban on the ability of Porter to ever again play for a team in that league, I would've wanted the Raptors to just cut him loose. He had after all been expected to become a restricted free agent, which would've meant the Raptors would've held his rights. Becoming an RFA appears quite different in the NBA than in the NHL because some RFAs in the hockey league have arbitration rights that they can exercise should the teams to which they were most recently under contract extend them qualifying offers but not re-sign them before such contracts have expired.

[@kcameron819]

Ok so now if a star gets caught doing it, they HAVE to give them the same penalty.

[@darikworku1687]

They would still ban him it’s a basketball sin

[@momomomo2693]

Gambling or night clubs

[@wookiev344]

What an idiot. Have fun being a bum

[@red3here]

Harsh much?