Michael Porter Jr. Discusses Ease of Rigging Props Amid Scandals

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00:00Let's get to the National Basketball Association, Sam, where you guys wrote about one player who

00:05talked about the simplicity of rigging NBA props. I mean, this is the last thing that anybody in the

00:11NBA wants to see. Yeah, it's the last thing that anybody in the NBA wants to see. And it's the

00:17last thing that you would want to see if you're related to Michael Porter Jr., who makes $38

00:22million a year from the Brooklyn Nets. He's a very big player. But one of the reasons that we

00:26talk about him in sports betting is because his brother, Jonte, who was on the Raptors,

00:31became famous last year for becoming the first NBA player banned for life for rigging prop bets,

00:38for faking injuries and telling bettors, hey, bet on my unders. I'm going to leave the game early

00:42with an injury. And of course, Jonte Porter was caught. He's awaiting sentencing. He's facing up

00:48to four years in prison that federal prosecutors have recommended. But Michael Porter Jr. has been

00:53on this kind of podcast run lately, where he's been making these strange comments and really speaking

00:57his mind. And this week, he made a comment on this podcast called One Night with Stiney,

01:03where he talked about how easy it is to manipulate props and all hypothetical instances, of course.

01:09But he's talking about, you know, there's guys in the league that they come from nothing and they

01:14really don't, you know, they don't view this the same way as a rational person might. They could

01:18easily tell their friend, like, hey, bet $10,000 on my unders today. I'm going to leave the game

01:23early with injuries. And, you know, that's a very real thing that he acknowledged. So the fact that

01:28you have a current NBA player publicly acknowledging it is already a big deal. And then the fact that his

01:33brother is literally the only player that got caught doing this and is now facing prison time just adds

01:39to it. Of course, Terry Rozier is under investigation for allegedly doing something perhaps like this.

01:46Malik Beasley is under investigation for allegedly doing something perhaps like this. And this,

01:52these investigations all start when you have these betting integrity firms that monitor these

01:57markets. You know, one of the reasons that sports betting was legalized is so we can track this stuff

02:01and make sure that guys aren't doing it. And when they are, we, we monitor it. So that's why you have

02:06these investigations. So it just adds to this conversation that's been growing over the past

02:10couple of years, especially around prop bets. You know, you saw college player props were fully

02:15banned because of this idea, because of the notion where it's very easy to manipulate these things.

02:19And quite frankly, hard to track it. If you get this information, you could just say it in passing

02:24to somebody and who would really know unless you have, you know, text messages, unless you're foolish

02:28enough to leave a paper trail, which apparently Jonte Porter did. So it has led to policy pushback as well.

02:35The governor of Ohio is actually called to ban all prop bets across all sports. He did that after the

02:40Cleveland guardians pitchers were put under betting investigation for manipulating their prop bets.

02:45The state, I don't think it's going to go that far. They could ban like micro specific bets where

02:50you're betting on the next play to be a missed shot or a wild pitch, something like that. So

02:55there is some sort of pushback here. I don't think that we would see all player prop bets banned, but

03:00you know, the fact that a current player is speaking out about this, I think only adds to the scrutiny

03:05around the issue if lawmakers do want to take action and, you know, regulate or restrict

03:11these markets in some way.