This Jontay Porter thing seems like sour grapes on behalf of the Sportsbooks and their Co-Conspirators in the National Media
As we all know, the national media has sold their souls to the gambling companies and will do the bidding of the sportsbooks and try to dupe gambling addicts and unsuspecting teenagers into making prop bets and horrendous parlays to profit off the new sports gambling world.
Now they have sour grapes from getting their asses handed to them by some smart people betting on Jontay Porter prop bets and have sent their pawns at ESPN to do a hit job on Jontay Porter.
It was public info that Jontay Porter suffered an eye injury against the Grizzlies and was then questionable for the next game against the Clippers. Betting on a blind man whose already a mediocre three point shooter, and who is questionable to play because of his injury to not make a three point shot is just a smart prop bet.
Even more egregious is the March 20th game against the Kings, where everyone hit his unders and won because of the illness. DraftKings and ESPN would love for you to believe he tipped people off about being sick and leaving early,
but the more obvious explanation is that they set a completely idiotic line and got their asses handed to them as a result.Per ESPN, the SportsBooks set his over/under at 7.5 points and 5.5 rebounds.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39808900/nba-eyes-raptors-jontay-porter-betting-issuesFor the season, Porter has went over on the points 7 times versus 19 times under (26.9% over). He's hit the over on the rebounds 5 times versus 21 under (19.2% over). Even parlaying those together, you have a 58.6% probability of both happening in the same game.
It's not a surprise that some smart gambling addicts would find a poorly set line and then hammer them on those.
On top of this, this also benefits Adam Silver, also in bed with the gambling companies, by deflecting attention away from the referees, who there have been concrete proof of being involved on betting on games. With this he targeted Jontay Porter, a scrub from a relatively unpopular family because of their anti-vax and manslaughter brother. A very easy scapegoat. This has the added benefit of also potentially getting NBA fans to turn on Michael Porter Jr., which would allow the betting refs to screw the Nuggets over in the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics.