The Breakfast Club - NBA Bans Jontay Porter For Life After Gambling Violation

Episode Date: April 18, 2024

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things. I called Donkey of the Day, and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Charlamagne. Who got the Donkey of the Day today? Well, Jessalarius, Donkey of the Day for Thursday, April 18th, goes to former NBA player John T. Porter. The reason I say former is because yesterday we found out that he got banned from the NBA for life after an investigation reveals he violated

league gambling rules. Let's go to ESPN for the report, please. The NBA has leveled a lifetime ban on the Toronto Raptors. Jonte Porter, for his involvement in gambling, the league's investigation found everything from limiting his own participation in games, sharing confidential information with known bettors, and betting on as many as 13 NBA games himself, including betting the Toronto Raptors to lose. And I think even more damning for the NBA is that this remains an open investigation. The league has turned over their findings to federal authorities. This may not be the end of this probe,

but Jonte Porter leveled with a lifetime ban from Commissioner Adam Silver today. Now, let me put this in perspective, paint the picture. Jonte Porter is 24 years old. He wasn't a star in Toronto. Probably would have never been a star, but according to the Toronto Raptors, they had high hopes for him and felt that eventually

he would have developed into a solid backup center for Toronto. The Raptors said if he would have stayed healthy, he would have probably been back with the organization. They said he provided

some defensive mobility, was an adequate passer for a backup big man, and had some floor spacing ability. The Raptors said it's entirely possible he could have landed

a minimum contract worth about $2.1 million. Now, the NBA, right? Let's talk about the NBA for a second. It's such an exclusive club. Do you know how many things in your life have to go right for you in order to make it to the NBA? Number one, genetics. Okay, you have to hit the lottery in the genetic gene pool in order for the

NBA to be a possibility. Jontae Porter is 6'10". I did some research, and by research I mean Google. 5'8 is the worldwide average among men in regards to height. 6'10 is so rare that it's literally one in a million. One in a million people are 6'10". And if you 6'10 and never played any type of basketball, then your nickname should be Top Shelf, okay,

because that's all you're good for. Getting stuff off the top shelf. Your height is one in a million, so God gave you a physical gift that you really can't do much with other than play basketball. If you're 6'10 and never played basketball, you're just a twizzler. Okay? Long for no damn reason. And you look pretty

stupid doing anything else. When you're 6'10, okay, coconut long boy and people see you anywhere else other than a basketball court they just assume something went wrong okay you just too tall to do anything you're too tall to be a mechanic you're too tall to be a software developer you wouldn't be able to sleep well on a flight okay if your pilot was six foot ten can you imagine if you saw a six foot ten pilot all right daddy long legs would drive you

crazy okay thinking about what is he doing with his legs in that cockpit? I'm just trying to explain to you how rare being six foot 10 is. Okay. One in a million. And then just to make it to the NBA, there's only 560 players in the NBA. Think about how few that is. Okay. Think about how rare it is to make it to the league 560 players only 1.2 percent of college players make it from college to the nba so usually the path is college to the nba and look how difficult that is jonte porter's path was even more difficult difficult okay he did one season at missouri was named to the 2018 sec all freshman team one sec six man of the year tore both his acl and mcl in a scrimmage game,

missed his sophomore season while rehabbing the injury, still decided to enter his name into the 2019 NBA draft, and God blessed him with an opportunity to, you know, get signed by the Grizzlies. He went undrafted, but he got signed by the Grizzlies in 2020. But he didn't play while rehabbing from the ACL. The Grizzlies re-signed him to a multi-year contract. He ended up getting waived, then spent time in the G League, then signed a two-way deal with the Raptors. You know when he played for the Grizzlies, he made $2.3

million over three seasons. Do you hear how difficult it was for him to make it to the NBA? And he's not even the first in his family to do it. That's how you know it's kind of destiny, right? His brother, Michael Porter Jr., NBA world champion for the Denver Nuggets, averages 16 and seven this year, got a five-year, $179 million contract. So Jante has a blueprint for this, okay? There is a role model for him in all of this.

All he had to do was continue to do what he's been doing, which is work. You've been working hard your whole entire life, working hard to get to a certain point, only to blow a potential multimillion dollar opportunity for $10 an hour. That's all he got. He got $21,000 was the payout, right, from the gambling. So $21,000 a year, that's about $10 an hour. Jontae, if you was old on your last legs in the league you

done played about 13 14 seasons i would be like whatever i might even understand but you 24 in a league where you don't even have to do much to get paid nowadays except be tall and now you're about to be in this world tall for no damn reason just out here looking like you're ready to kidnap clouds because you got banned from the NBA for life Now salute the Bonzi Wells and Rasheed Wallace They were talking about this situation on the Rasheed and Tyler show and they absolutely gave John Tate a credit He deserves for being stupid. So let's hear it in the words of Charlemagne the God. He got donkey It's tough. He's a donkey. He motherfucking whore.

Life is about choices, y'all. Okay? Destiny is not a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. I tell y'all this all the time. One poor choice can ruin everything. And he made a poor choice. All right.

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Many of us have experienced a moment in our lives that changes everything, that instantly divides our life into a before and an after. On my podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, I talk to people about navigating these moments. Their stories are full of candor and hard-won wisdom. And you'll hear from scientists who teach us how we can be more resilient in the face of change. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone.

The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different, inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know?

I wouldn't give up my seat nine months before Rosa. It was called a moment. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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