Rich Eisen Reacts to Jontay Porter's Lifetime NBA Ban for Gambling | The Rich Eisen Show

Rich Eisen reacts to the NBA issuing a lifetime ban on Toronto Raptors F Jontay Porter for gambling.
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[@McSomething15]

This lifetime ban brought to you by FanDuel.

[@jackjackthompson5771]

Well, he did this to himself. I agree it’s insane they are doing this we hate gambling but are raking in the dough, but still, he screwed himself….

[@jamesonedwardsii4943]

@@jackjackthompson5771all he did was take advantage of what the league is already doing…. Refs will eject a guy for looking at them and saying absolutely nothing because they’re about to hit

[@Lingboysc2]

I was going to comment this lol.

[@mrmakuman24]

for decades the illegal sports gambling industry made millions (probably billions) by using the nba's product and the nba got absolutely nothing. now it is a legal and regulated industry in most states, why is it wrong for the nba to get some money? people are betting on nba games, the nba definitely definitely deserves some of the profits generated by these sports books

[@GoingMach5]

@@mrmakuman24 it’s not about it being wrong or right it’s about you breaking a rule that’s specifically stated in the contract you signed for millions of dollars.

[@DrumBum561]

Gambling is one thing, but this guy purposefully faked illnesses and played poorly to help people make money, which caused him team to lose. It's not like he was gambling on baseball or something he had no involvement in. Idiot fumbled the bag so hard. All for about 21k in winnings.

[@drumagus2258]

yeah only GMs are allowed to tank games.

[@tybones2222]

That team would lose against a 2024 play in Klay Thompson lol

[@cremdeniro237]

​@@drumagus2258tanking is legal grambling on your games in which your apart of is not but you gen z babies always gotta come with your foolishness

[@drumagus2258]

@@cremdeniro237 well for one he didnt actually bet on any games he played in and for two tanking should be illegal. its certainly immoral.

[@davidburke2453]

He did not cause his team to lose. He got out of the game as quickly as he could. He had no impact on the outcome of the games whatsoever.

[@carrite]

Gambling companies don't want to lose money to insider trading. THEY'RE the ones who make money on insider trading...

[@kylem6370]

@carrite for real.. I wonder if they gave ppl their money back if they had taken his over for those games, since they didn’t give them the winnings. I had a parlay for +1200 odds where only leg that lost was Temple +7.5 over UAB and they lost badly but reports are that that was the 5th game this year of suspicious betting behavior (it started out as +1.5 and went to 7.5 over night) if it comes out that they were tanking on purpose wonder if they’ll subtract that from my original parlay as a push and give me the 3 pick win at like +550 (probably not though they’ll just tell me sucks to suck )

[@dowhatiwantc7637]

@@kylem6370they wouldn’t it’s all fake and Las Vegas keeps betting alive for one reason the money they make. The house always wins

[@heartbreak25]

Exactly. He was caught because it just wasn't him moving his own money, but a lot of money moved which triggered their systems to further investigate.

[@skillethead15]

Exactly, I bet no bets were frozen earlier in the year when they were throwing Jokic and Giannis out of games at half time. I bet they were raking it in then. It’s despicable. Get this gambling bs out of my sports.

[@exitscreaming4637]

Huh ?

[@pathutchison7688]

Betting against your own team is a whole different level of messed up. This is the kind of thing that gets criminally charged. The fact that he wasn’t playing those games will probably save him from being arrested, but still…

[@thatsatripman]

lol rich never wears the glasses to use them, only to take them off in the beginning of his hot take

[@6foot7natiboy]

He puts them on to read his notes...

[@MM-ud1xf]

They’re called “reading’ glasses for a reason

[@nickd2296]

It's crazy how $925,000 a year was not enough for Jontay to be satisfied. Human greed is undefeated.

[@dowhatiwantc7637]

That’s not shi have you seen bezo. His greed is not as bad as billionaires you do know the difference between millionaires and billionaires is exponential but let’s attack a guy who could live off those winning without stocks maybe 10 years

[@dowhatiwantc7637]

Greed is undefeated but a guy who bets on fake sports or a man who exploits children in third world countries… let’s start at the top and go to the bottom not the other way around.

[@casanjt8515]

​@dowhatiwantc7637 say that again..the world 1percent wealth is getting greater whilst everyone else own is diminishing

[@nickd2296]

@@dowhatiwantc7637 I'm no fan of Jeff Bezos but he did make life a lot easier for billions of people by inventing Amazon.

[@SlipKid1975]

An addiction is much more powerful than greed…

[@Biz613]

The ads are everywhere. The leagues promote it. This is a mess. Players, coaches, refs, executives are all susceptible. This is only the beginning. Gambling addiction is real.

[@mattcarberry368]

every sports league in the world has had beer partnerships/sponsors for as long as i can remember doesn't mean they condone players showing up to games drunk lol people need to stop being so melodramatic and realize that people make these kinds of choices regardless of what's legal or regardless of who one of their bosses business sponsors are

[@hunter371]

​@@mattcarberry368That's not even apples to oranges. A player, coach, GM, or other member of the team can use insider information to make quick money with sports betting apps which are designed to be super easy to use. Sure, a player making 7 figures may not be likely to engage but an assistant trainer who knows about an injury? Grow up.

[@scarpfish]

​@@mattcarberry368The players showing up drunk wouldn't be with the intent of getting some side action for throwing games or ensuring less than expected results.

[@richh650]

Constant gambling ads are a big turnoff!!!

[@Harcorwrestler]

And it’s so easy to gamble now. You can’t promote all these gambling companies and put it in our face everyday and expect no consequences. You’re right, this is just the beginning

[@Leo-gh7nz]

Jontay “Wilder” Porter

[@Liyfa_Unpay]

Right 😂

[@ghostingdagame7090]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mikehoule8674]

The customer service message isn’t for any professional athlete. It isn’t for LeBron James, Shohei Ohtani, etc. It’s for the Jontay Porters of professional sports

[@Dan-tp3py]

When greed eclipses intelligence...

[@JaggerDaBombs]

Major League Sports need to stop all partnerships with betting apps. Its gross and slimey to partner with them. Also so the league is partnering with them, but you as a player can get in trouble and banned for betting. That's some bullshit right there

[@dowhatiwantc7637]

They all are slimey every betting app is based on them making money not the betters

[@JaggerDaBombs]

@@dowhatiwantc7637 I don't care about the betters. I care about the players getting in trouble even though their teams and sports Leagues are making deals with these gambling apps

[@tainanking]

@@dowhatiwantc7637that’s how gambling works. Why else are casinos open 24/7? Sure aren’t there for people to win 😂

[@mrmakuman24]

how is that bullshit that players cannot bet on games in a league that employs them? that is the most common sense gambling rule possible. i actually think im going crazy because theres no way another human said its bullshit that nba players cant bet on nba games, especially games theyre playing in. thats completely insane. also sports gambling is as old as sports itself, as long as humans have been playing sports other humans have been betting on it. why shouldnt the nba profit off of that? the illegal sports gambling industry was making profits by using the nba's product for decades. why is it wrong for the nba to want some of those profits when the gambling is done in a legal and regulated manner?

[@tainanking]

@@mrmakuman24 you don’t even make any sense. So you want guys to do what this dude did and take under a on himself and make the games a clown league so every player can do this

[@robj362]

The league(s) opened Pandora's box when they partnered with betting sites........wtf you think was gonna happen. Guaranteed this won't be the last time

[@dowhatiwantc7637]

There’s books on betting before these this just made it worse

[@scarpfish]

Not just the players and coaches either, but also the officials.

[@Dan-tp3py]

Right. It's the league's fault.... Give me a break. This greedy idiot knew the rules, and did it anyway. Accountability is clearly challenging for you, @robj362

[@aidanorsino1]

The crazy thing is that there is a generation, taught to judge by money not morals or effort , who is nightly saying “ players should get the bag “ ?

[@finnishline]

Great journalism here.

[@gsand2892]

I was waiting for Rich’s input on the news today!

[@jamesnightingale2788]

He averaged 4 points per game, this guy was never in a position to lose a game on his own

[@brianmanuel1202]

Not the point...he was giving inside information about himself and other teammates.

[@shysgarage2405]

Isn't his last name Porter??????????????????????????

[@Lowgear26]

Is this another "isolated" event and nobody else does this? Sport is probably dirty as sin.

[@jamesthereaper7]

This lifetime ban was brought to you by DraftKings Sportsbook.

[@gullydred530]

The people who own the leagues are in Full partnership with the people who own Gambling. Integrity lost already.

[@rocketsfan6116]

Here's my issue with the ban, ultimately...let's say it had been Nikola Jokic or Luka Doncic or Victor Wembanyama who had done this. Would THEY have been banned for life? I'd be willing to bet not. The league would prioritize their revenue from said players. Jontay clearly and obviously made abhorrent decisions, but he's being banned for life and made an example of, in part because he's not a star player.

[@ZacharyJohnG]

I would never as a pro athlete ever do this, but the fact that he bet from a friend’s account and still got caught, is craaaazy

[@jinngyn1]

The math ain’t mathing

[@stingrey1571]

I predicted this would happen. The new gambling apps allow to bet on an individual and not just a team’s wins or losses. A player was going to bet on themselves and screw around and try to cash in.

[@llcoolbeard2922]

Crazy that they thought this was the boxer and put “wilder” instead of his name Porter. Lmao

[@jamesonedwardsii4943]

There is no boxer named jontay wilder 😭

[@llcoolbeard2922]

@@jamesonedwardsii4943 you don’t say…… but one can understand what the person was thinking when they made this

[@rstevens1836]

It was Jontay Porter's interpreter who did it! haha

[@terrenceboone5206]

Good one, people are damn naive to believe someone can retrieve that much cash from his account and he is not aware.🤦

[@tierra0218]

@@terrenceboone5206did you read the 37 pages detail first? And there are many cases that people stole the money from pro athletes. Kevin Garnett got stolen 77M from his financial team and he didn't have interpreter. Just let you know.

[@pretzelhunt]

@@terrenceboone5206 it's not Japanese Yen. it was foreign currency to Shohei = a lot less valuable culturally, even if it isnt economically. It's like being paid in aluminium cans, not cash like you think.

[@MrRicklynch57]

@@terrenceboone5206exactly. No one understands how wiring money works. It requires 2 factor authentication. One of which is a token. This would mean the interpreter would not only have Ohtani's bank password, but his phone, his phone password, and his biometric to unlock the token each time. Also, all wires go through OFAC. With the frequency of these the bank would have called the phone number on file, not the interpreter. Finally Ohtani has a lot of money going in and out of his account and has complex taxes. He has a bookeeper who settles the books at the end of the month. Any unauthorized transactions would have been noticed by a bookeeper. This is the same as America accepting Mark McGwire saying I took GNC products to get big.

[@user-er3ri6sc3j]

He's going to need an interpreter in China.

[@dariancoffee5583]

I have no problem with betting, in porters case though it was a dumb move. Period. 22 thowow made from bets but his annual salary close to 1M

[@DEATHBYJOKES01]

Lets check his brother

[@sprintstothebathroomdaily2429]

Now lets investigate refs and umpires The fact angel Hernandez still umps games is ridiculous.

[@alexshirley6096]

I live in Vegas this dude is lucky he’s not buried in the desert or in a lake right now casinos do not put up with what jontay Porter did

[@xcreenplay7264]

if throwing your rich life away was a person...oh hi Jontay Porter lol.

[@charanjilal503]

NBA referee should next JEFF FOSTER

[@imposible2beat]

I feel bad for Michael Porter Jr.

[@Janny890]

I just found out that was his brother 😭

[@whomped_]

why would you be sad for him? is he involved too? He’s not estranged so I bet he knew.

[@alexshirley6096]

He has another brother who was convicted for driving drunk and killing someone last year the Porter family is on another level

[@exitscreaming4637]

why

[@Rickstrickland1987]

Jontay Porter should’ve gotten an interpreter so he could hide behind a language barrier. He’d still be playing basketball today. 

[@mouseinthehouse_]

The two situations aren’t even remotely comparable. One athlete gets robbed, the other athlete throws his own games that he was betting on.

[@DonFrankel]

All anyone; a player, a coach or a referee needs is a friend to place the bets, not to go crazy with the amounts and then they can just count the money.

[@MrRicklynch57]

If he had an interpreter he could've just said he didn't understand.

[@ckfandor4300]

I think it should be Draymond Green that receives a lifetime ban, not Porter

[@Sam19509]

Draymond doesn’t gamble on his own games he just wants to fight. Wants to be a UFC fighter on an nba allstar salary.😂😂

[@laughingmanime4622]

Just imagining that, it would make me sick to my stomach every offseason when I have to see what kinds of new contracts these players are getting, and then here I am in my mid-late 20s not getting any of that, trying to make whatever money I did make from the league last as long as I can, all because I couldn't control my gambling

[@ajoseph5073]

WHAT A WAY TO HELP SOMEONE WITH AN ADDICTION MR. ADAM SILVER !

[@SoulKingKurosaki]

Wowzers... Getting a lifetime ban for gambling. Yes, it's that serious. Imagine if the NFL were to start doing this

[@pretzelhunt]

they will if they can prove NFl'ers are throwing games and underperforming, for bets; they havent found or released anyone for it yet.

[@petep5207]

@@pretzelhunt ALL major sports are rigged...and some amateur ones, too.

[@pretzelhunt]

@@petep5207 lol... ok, Alex Jones. the USA faked the moon landing too, cuz it's made of cheese.

[@custum18]

They have to make a statement as gambling is sports new golden egg. Hypocrisy after decades of religiously screaming about the ills of gambling.

[@TruthNationUncensored]

I bet he wishes he had an interpreter 🤣🤣

[@KevinLuna]

What? I don't understand about gambling and how it is so terrible that it needs a band for life is why is it still a thing? Why is it still available? Why is gambling even an auction? Why does the MBA get involved in gambling? If it's so terrible, these are the things that make no sense to me

[@TheRasta4ri]

Lions cowboys playoff game in Dallas as I watched it was clear & present that the officials refs responsible for the safety & integrity of the game were not going to allow Detroit Lions to win in Dallas against cowboys

[@freddysmith1471]

Gambling is just as addictive as drugs or alcohol. If he was a drug addict or an alcoholic people wouldn’t be calling him stupid, they would say he needs help. Also, it’s hard to take Rich seriously with his Otani take.

[@allensaunders449]

The sports world embraces gambling NFL, NBA etc. but expects players not to gamble impossible hypocritical too. The exception of course don't bet on your team to win or lose

[@mikethomas860]

Jontay be saying, you mean me faking an injury on a game that I bet on is wrong. My bad!

[@gurusheat3506]

Dont forget the people that may have possibly LOST tons of money betting on him, the average sportsbetteors .. never stood a chance.. will never get a refund either

[@simondaughtry4619]

There goes my under lock.

[@baleeghshaheed6439]

Only owners x GM's are allowed to tank...

[@Bask3tChase]

The NBA can’t have players rigging games… That’s the ref’s job. *points at the free throw disparity between The Lakers and the rest of the league*

[@dankool688]

He should work at a factory for $20 an hour and see how he like it.

[@PatDK]

He wasn’t going to play much anyways, but why make it easier on them to cut you? What an absolute clown move, and having a dad who has coached college hoops for over two decades, he knows better

[@northernreflections4653]

Good chance he would have got a minimum contract with the Raptors next season. Two million $ gone essentially gambled away…

[@BlackDog0001]

Wow, I hope it was worth it.

[@iomis2001]

How about yhese tefs that clealy make calls to favor a team

[@Khanh.Nguyen369]

Didn’t Boban just do the same thing with chicken nuggets?

[@fwily2580]

NIL, transfer portal, sports betting. College and professional. Anyone who disagrees is naive. I’ll make a bet with anyone…. I bet he’s not the only one.

[@Sunday_Swagger]

You REALLY believe other players haven’t done the same thing or Referees & gotten away with it 😂 rich can be so gullible.

[@brenndoncopeland3213]

If the MLB interpreter was gambling what makes us think he got the money 💰!! Othani knows the over /under!!

[@user-ig7nu5qn7k]

The DOJ, IRS and Homeland Security have concluded Ohtani is innocent. If you can't stand it, all you have to do is prove them all wrong. Plain and simple.

[@sammy74747]

He took no loss. He would of been waived by next season. Nba careers are 1-2 years at most these days if you not producing

[@jesse1834]

If players are giving insider injury information to sports books what are the average Joe employees doing?

[@joejuan5022]

MPJ needs to be banned as well just to be safe. He’s guilty by association.

[@greenmatrix151023387]

I agree w/ rich. Honestly.

[@marcoescuandolas]

Maybe these sports leagues need to quit throwing all this sports gambling sites in everyone's faces, it's on the court, it's on the walls in the outfield and one the boards of the hockey game. It's everywhere, in everyone's faces. You think players are immune? What did you think was going to happen?

[@stingrey1571]

Yo, this video I just watched was bookended by fanduel ads.

[@Progressive.G]

I 100% blame ADAM SILVER - he's a scoundrel who has sold the league to sports gambling companies

[@TamTranTriZzle]

My only question is, his bro Mike got $200M and couldn't give him, like just $100K? How u gonna have a brother that makes $40M a year, and you betting games at $500?

[@alex1vid]

... serious question. Was there a Fanduel on the severity of Porter's punishment? Fanduel and these sites boast being able to gamble about anything, so why not? This is a huge loss for that guy, but he's not the first or last to throw it all away. What's bigger is that I don't just blame him. The league seems to support the gambling in general. And the LEAGUE mandates refs to dictate the flow of games by how they make calls. Let's face it, it's not about the actual sport it's just about the 'entertainment'. You have officials with awful egos that have vendettas against players, and you have officials that gamble themselves. You can apparently gamble on stuff like even shot attempts I think? Forget about Porter - he's just the guy that got CAUGHT. So whatever, man. He's the example. Have to be smarter and easier to make an example out of a guy like that vs. if (not saying he does) say a Edwards or Halliburton were caught.

[@DRACOFURY]

Get those Refs too 😒

[@ZigbertD]

There's questionable decision making, and then there's poor decision making, and then there's terrible decision making, and then there's what this guy did. Did he honestly not know that a bigtime legal sportsbook wasn't going to get suspicious when a bunch of bets were suddenly made taking the under on some rando backup NBA center's stat line, including an $80g bet that paid off over $1 million? Oh, and then they find out, yeah he checked himself out of that game way early with some mystery "illness." OK, career over, thanks for playing, goodbye. He may be lucky to avoid spending time as a guest in the Tim Donaghy Suite at the Pensacola Federal Prison Camp

[@michaelwood9559]

The good news for the NBA is I don’t really think they need to worry about superstars getting caught in scandals like this bc they’re already making so much money. Guys on the edge like this barely holding onto their careers are much more likely to be taken advantage of. Also there’s a pretty solid argument to be made for certain officials fixing games

[@lanoa111]

I am sure that no NBA ref in history has ever fixed a game before /s. As a sidenote, scott foster yet again assigned to a lakers game. Take that as you will...

[@gordfranks6825]

Michael Jordan

[@00177454419]

The lesson here: Porter should have gotten an interpreter.

[@user-ig7nu5qn7k]

If you hate so much that Shohei is innocent, I suggest you stop crying and prove DOJ, IRS and Homeland Security all wrong instead.

[@Dfturcott]

Also let’s not forget that even still Florida state didn’t deserve to make the CFP

[@mak1skav]

The advice should be to not be cheap and get an interpreter.

[@klusterfuk6793]

One to to gamble it’s another to gamble on your own team too lose…

[@AngryManSki]

This is the future. Gambling addiction is going to increase. The ban will not stop this from happening again. Predictable behavior but these leagues will claim ignorance. We didn’t know this would happen 😂😂😂😂

[@jarenbigelow8606]

I hate all the betting crap. I stopped watching the NBA because of it.

[@gordonmarshall7362]

As a raptors fan his salary is $450,000. You spend your career trying to make into the nba and now this. So sad.

[@Coco-de2ei]

450k minus agent fees and taxes. Dude he was playing for like 200k a year. He made a million gambling. Plus his brother plays for Denver nuggets. Plus he placed bets in Colorado. Trust men his brother will float him son cash soon to keep betting

[@jerryjohnson7298]

All that hard work to make it, destroyed in seconds by stupidity

[@folumb]

This guy didn't have a lapse in judgement. He purposefully performed these acts to help cover spreads multiple times. What Calvin Ridley did when he was depressed and at home with no team contact was a judgement lapse. This is not even in the same league as that.

[@Petrov987]

He bet ON GAMES HE PLAYED...thats why he is getting lifetime ban. UNDER on GAMES HE PLAYED!!!!!

[@ariea.devalois1564]

Whatever happened to the Ohtani investigation?

[@austinstice3512]

Federal charges have been brought against the interpreter.

[@ariea.devalois1564]

@@austinstice3512 Have you ever known an interpreter to have access to someone's bank accounts? This is all very convenient.

[@drumagus2258]

we got a fall guy case closed.

[@austinstice3512]

@ariea.devalois1564 The 37 page document is on line with all the details. Read it, it's pretty interesting. If after reading that you are still skeptical then nothing will change your mind.

[@annunakian8054]

​@austinstice3512 they don't know how to read 😂

[@SonofStormblessed]

I feel very VERY confident that Rich is completely wrong when thinking every athlete who gambled is gonna get caught. That's extremely naive, and completely contradicts how crime actually works. Typically most crimes like this are not caught. And thinking any computer program is good enough to spot everyone is also just ridiculous tbh.

[@Ganggangbuzzbuzz]

Golden State can laugh when theirs a bad beat on a spread on camera no questions though.

[@Shsnshdbandjdbd]

You can gamble and get away with it if you use people you have no contact with like going through a person to go through a person who goes through a person I just don’t get why him a child who grew up with a father who coached in college his brother is right outside being an all star I just can’t see him needing it

[@hereallyfast]

They invite sickness

[@evilalien1741]

He was starting to be a decent role player worked his way back just to throw it away

[@paulblack8887]

Everything nowadays is framed as social ill or societal harm, ɓut this should be ecgnized as the personal failings of a foolish young man, privileged by Nature to live a life most of us could only dream of, throwing it all away because of the choices he made. When gsmbling was illegal and shunned as an industry these sorts of actions would be much less visible and pusued less vigorously., and the bookmakers would not be incentivized to study these discrepancies, beyond their own book's balance.

[@ThemePro24]

Jontay Porter is just a casualty of hypocrisy as sports leagues make huge bank from the sports gambling industry. Right Rich?

[@allenwalsh9799]

Raptors fans had started embracing him..hell the team even made a video about him and JVL as part of the future of the team. What a piece of garbage.

[@SunniMerlot]

His brother has tens of millions so he probably feels like it don’t matter if he got caught

[@davidburke2453]

He can play in Europe and make money there if he wants to. I am a Raptors fan and he was not an NBA player. He lost his chance to make money in the G league though. The man shot his shot. I find it hilarious that he did not think there would be massive red flags though.

[@H2KSP]

He's not going to be playing anywhere. Nobody will touch this guy. He can't be trusted, that he won't do this to whatever team if given another chance. Also he's most likely going to be indicted by the Federal Government for Conspiracy to Commit Fraud. This is a big deal, it's a felony. A kin to Insider trading. Federal Offense.

[@lesliecolonello9320]

Tip of the iceberg

[@RDillonD]

Jontay wilder??? lol

[@wildcatalumni]

I don't like how often TJ gets interrupted. Let TJ talk please.

[@loopba]

Tehran was just leveled

[@y416]

“Galactically stupid” but altogether predictable. There should be no surprise with all the NCAA and professional athletes getting caught breaking the rules regarding legalized gambling, and now the Porter case. It was bound to happen, and we all knew it. 💰💰💰💰💰💰

[@matthewc4224]

Every pro athlete and ref are completely legit. This never happens.

[@brunokrisgeorgeton4482]

He might try to go and play in Europe now.

[@scotticus]

I am extremely disappointed, don't get me wrong he deserves the punishment. But Jontay was a small positive in such a shitty season for the Raptors. Like hey we might have found a guy who could develop into a good bench player. Shame to see him squander that