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Michael Porter Jr. Warns Sports Betting Can Affect ‘Integrity' of NBA Games
Michael Porter, Jr. is getting candid about the impact of sports betting.
On Monday's (Aug. 11) episode of the One Night with Steiny podcast, the Brooklyn Nets small forward and co-hosts Aaron 'Steiny' Steinberg and Bob Menery discussed the explosion of sports betting near the 21-minute mark in the video linked above.
Porter Jr. believes sports gambling can affect the 'integrity of the game.'
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'Think about it: if you can get all your homies rich by telling them, 'Yo, bet $10,000 on my under. This one game, I'm gonna act like I got an injury, I'ma sit out, I'ma come out after three minutes,' and they all get a little bag because you did it one game,' said the 27-year-old. 'That is so not okay, but some people probably think like that. They come from nothing and all their homies have nothing.'
He continued, 'Obviously my brother [Jontay Porter] went through his situation. Malik Beasley is going through a situation right now, Terry Rozier was in some hot water. But the whole sports gambling, like, entity? Bro, it's bad and it's only gonna get worse. Like, we really do get death threats.'
Porter Jr. also touched on the matter in a recent vlog on his Curious Mike YouTube channel while explaining that his 'relationship with God is where it needs to be at.'
"Everybody has different vices. Everybody has different things that they struggle with. That can go from people that struggle with alcohol, people that struggle with drugs. My brother, for example, struggled with gambling. My vice has always come in the form of women,' he said at the two-minute mark in the video above.
'I don't think [about] objectifying women, I don't think being with women all the time and sleeping around and doing stuff like that is cool,' he added. 'And I haven't necessarily been doing that. But nevertheless, like women has always been my vice.'
Jontay Porter was permanently banned from the NBA in April 2024 for violating the league's gambling policy after an investigation found that he had disclosed information about his health status to an individual he knew to be an NBA bettor.
In June, the U.S. District Attorney's office opened an investigation on Detroit Pistons shooting guard Malik Beasley for allegedly gambling on NBA games.
The league also investigated Terry Rozier in 2023 for 'unusual activity' but found that no rules were violated, according to ESPN. Rozier's attorney, Jim Trusty, told the network last month that although a federal inquiry is ongoing, his client is not a target of the investigation.
To date, Rozier has not been charged nor accused of any wrongdoing.
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