The Official NBA Season Thread: I’m like Jayson Tatum in the Olympics I'm not playing

[lawdog1]

Feel like Silver had no choice but to do this. Someone expendable to the league so might as well give the harshest punishment possible to hopefully create a deterrent.

 

[trappedintime]

Lifetime ban is crazzzyyyyyy

Elite company of OJ Mayo and Donald Sterling

 

[lovehateself]

it was mpj's money

get him out of here too





i say this as a laker fan

 

[B Sox]

Lifetime ban is crazzzyyyyyy

Don’t see the issue with it all. Involving your own participation is an obvious no-no.

 

[HIM]

There's no way MPJ wasn't giving him info before he made the league. This is gonna end up going like the Ohtani cover up though.

It's a shame. 'Tay was just hitting his stride. He was gonna be an all star in the league.

 

[nick.]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Just imagine, MPJ had the audacity to talk **** about another person having a **** up as a brother

One of his brothers killed someone because they drove drunk

Another one threw his career away because of a gambling problem

 

[lovehateself]

y'all think he took the over on games suspended?

 

[lawdog1]

Don’t see the issue with it all. Involving your own participation is an obvious no-no.

Absolutely.

And it happens to be a perfect opportunity for the league to do something related to gambling that gives the appearance of “we take this really seriously and won’t tolerate behavior like this” while not having it impact anyone who is actually of consequence to the league.

 

[broncos19dm]

Bruh

 

[trappedintime]

Absolutely.

And it happens to be a perfect opportunity for the league to do something related to gambling that gives the appearance of “we take this really seriously and won’t tolerate behavior like this” while not having it impact anyone who is actually of consequence to the league.

It does but that’s a straw man argument too. Where’s the high profile guy who got a pass being this brazen?

 

[B Sox]

It’s all the **** you absolutely aren’t supposed to do with gambling as an athlete

No other choice if you’re Silver.

 

[usabasketball08]

Nasty work

 

[adobecs4]

Did all that for less than 100k. I'd be sick

 

[nick.]

threw your career away for $21K

 

[pmatic]

Jontay can definitely spin this incident into a gambling podcast.

 

[lawdog1]

It does but that’s a straw man argument too. Where’s the high profile guy who got a pass being this brazen?

There hasn’t been one as far as any of us know. And if it never happens, the NBA can attribute it to swiftly dropping the hammer on Porter and making an example of him.

 

[HIM]

Is he banned from sportsbooks too? That'll be the real penalty. Shouldn't this be jailtime for him, too?

 

[tomdiginson]

He clearly wasn't experienced in the underworld. Cause throwing away a journey man career for 21k has to be the dumbest thing you can do. This is why people who don't come from the mud should leave certain things alone cause they ain't built for it.

 

[WASHED KING]

Perfect example for the league. Still nasty work.

Bench player no one will miss.

 

[N41D]

I realize people hate the Warriors but how is a guy who finished 4th in 3’s and made his career on shooting “cooked”? His stroke is lost forever?

Biggest thing that has hurt him and the entire org the last two seasons is mental **** cause their locker room and relationship with lazy coaches is a mess.

I could see his numbers jumping back up next year in a different situation, but you can’t call a guy cooked when he’s still doing more at what he was hired to do than 90% of the league this year.

Watch that man move. It ain’t the same.

He’ll latch on somewhere as a role guy - if GS doesn’t keep him on a discounted rate - but he’s been visibly miserable all year long and has admitted constantly he’s having a hard time mentally with accepting who he is at this stage.

Cool - he can still shoot a solid percentage from 3… he gives you nothing else offensively and his defense fell off a cliff with all those leg injuries. There just ain’t much left.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

The Porter family aren't sending their best.

 

[RustyShackleford]

 

[broncos19dm]

Really just nasty work, throw your whole career for this

 

[aepps20]

What a disgrace but we all say this coming