Michael Porter Jr. opens up about NBA gambling temptations

Michael Porter Jr, one of the latest additions to the Brooklyn Nets, recently shared some candid thoughts about the temptations NBA players face — especially when it comes to gambling.

Sports betting has remained one of the league’s most talked-about issues, both during last season and throughout this summer.

With ongoing investigations into players like Malik Beasley and Terry Rozier, and after his brother Jontay Porter received a lifetime ban from the NBA (with a potential prison sentence looming), Porter Jr. didn’t hold back.

“Think about if you can get all your homies rich by telling them, ‘yo bet $10,000 on my under this 1 game, I’m gonna act like I got an injury…’ and they all get a little bag… Some people come from nothing,” he said during an appearance on the One Night with Steiny podcast.

But that wasn’t the only time Porter has opened up about personal struggles and the darker side of the NBA lifestyle.

On his own podcast, Curious Mike, he reflected more deeply on the different kinds of battles players can face — using both his brother’s story and his own.

“Everybody has different weaknesses. Everybody struggles with different things. It might be people who deal with alcohol, with drugs.”

“For example, my brother had problems with gambling. My weakness has always come in the form of women. And when I’m away from God, when I’m not reading his word, not praying, not prioritizing him, that’s where the devil seems to catch me: in the realm of women,”
Porter concluded.

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