Six Questions About the Jontay Porter NBA Gambling Scandal
What comes next for Porter, the NBA, and legalized sports betting? We try to untangle the messy situation involving the Toronto Raptors forward.
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Porter, Laskaris writes, is a cofounder of the Financial Cloud (a community trading website), which also has a Discord server. Per the report, Porter also has a trading account on Twitter that was active last month, which he linked in a tweet from his main account, confirming its identity. He has discussed stocks, cryptocurrency,
and college basketball gambling edges on the account.
Laskaris reports that the account even liked a tweet from an account that has since gone private, which suggested that there was value to be had in betting on the Memphis Grizzlies, a team Porter briefly played for.
Looks like the walls have closed in on him! Baseball player is screwed if he knew more than he says and even if he says he didn’t and did….
So, who exactly placed the Porter prop bets?
We don’t know yet. It could have been Porter. Or the mob. Or maybe even an army of Discord users. A report from Daily Hive’s Adam Laskaris suggests that Porter is the kind of guy who likes to seek out a financial edge and that he saw sports gambling as potentially lucrative.Porter, Laskaris writes, is a cofounder of the Financial Cloud (a community trading website), which also has a Discord server. Per the report, Porter also has a trading account on Twitter that was active last month, which he linked in a tweet from his main account, confirming its identity. He has discussed stocks, cryptocurrency,
and college basketball gambling edges on the account.
Laskaris reports that the account even liked a tweet from an account that has since gone private, which suggested that there was value to be had in betting on the Memphis Grizzlies, a team Porter briefly played for.
Looks like the walls have closed in on him! Baseball player is screwed if he knew more than he says and even if he says he didn’t and did….
