Porter betting scandal the latest in a chaotic Raptors season
TORONTO – Garrett Temple has just about seen it all in his 14 NBA seasons.
The veteran guard has played for 12 different organizations – more than a third of the league. He’s made deep playoff runs, lost 50-plus games on some bad Washington and Sacramento teams, and shared a Nets locker room with Kyrie Irving in the bubble during the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 campaign.
Still, the 37-year-old paused for a moment before trying to put this Raptors season into perspective.
“This is easily the, I guess you could say, the craziest season [and] team I’ve been a part of in terms of all of these parts, all of these things happening,” Temple said. “For sure.”
It started seven months ago with an unprecedented lawsuit. Since then Toronto has faced massive franchise-altering trades, possible season-ending injuries, tragic personal loss, its longest losing streak in more than a decade, and now, a gambling scandal that threatens to jeopardize the integrity of the league and could have far-reaching implications across professional sports.
Just before the Raptors dropped their 11th straight game on Monday evening came the ESPN report that forward Jontay Porter is under investigation by the NBA for his alleged involvement in recent “betting irregularities.”
According to ESPN, the league is looking into two games – a Jan. 26 contest against the Clippers and Mar. 20 against the Kings – in which there was unusually high betting interest on the under for Porter props. Porter played less than five minutes in each of those games, leaving early due to an eye injury and an illness, respectively. His prop bets – all of them hitting the under – were the biggest moneymakers on DraftKings Sportsbook both nights.
Porter, who is making $415,000 on a two-way contract this season, has been away from the team since the weekend. He’s missed the last two games due to what the team is listing as “personal........
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