{"id":64744,"date":"2025-08-13T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64744\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:36:14","slug":"michael-porter-jr-opens-up-about-nba-gambling-temptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64744\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Porter Jr. opens up about NBA gambling temptations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Porter Jr, one of the latest additions to the Brooklyn Nets, recently shared some candid thoughts about the temptations NBA players face \u2014 especially when it comes to gambling.<\/p>\n

Sports betting has remained one of the league\u2019s most talked-about issues, both during last season and throughout this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2019t hold back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about if you can get all your homies rich by telling them, \u2018yo bet $10,000 on my under this 1 game, I\u2019m gonna act like I got an injury\u2026\u2019 and they all get a little bag\u2026 Some people come from nothing,\u201d he said during an appearance on the One Night with Steiny podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n

But that wasn\u2019t the only time Porter has opened up about personal struggles and the darker side of the NBA lifestyle.<\/p>\n

On his own podcast, Curious Mike<\/a>, he reflected more deeply on the different kinds of battles players can face \u2014 using both his brother\u2019s story and his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody has different weaknesses. Everybody struggles with different things. It might be people who deal with alcohol, with drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, my brother had problems with gambling. My weakness has always come in the form of women. And when I\u2019m away from God, when I\u2019m not reading his word, not praying, not prioritizing him, that\u2019s where the devil seems to catch me: in the realm of women,\u201d
Porter concluded.<\/p>\n

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