Nets’ Michael Porter Jr. shares details on Jontay Porter

No Nets was not directly involved in the gambling investigations and indictments that have rocked the sports world. But Michael Porter Jr. felt it on a personal level more than anyone, as the Brooklyn forward spoke to The Post about how he succeeded.

Investigations into Illegal sports betting and rigged underground poker games It led to the arrest of Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and Damon Jones. When the indictments were unsealed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, they revealed that the gamblers threatened Jontay Porter, the brother of the Nets star, if he did not participate in the betting schemes.

The bombshell rocked the sports world, but Porter told The Post he was prepared after his brother had a heart-to-heart with him. Before that, the younger brother Porter had kept his family in the dark in an attempt to protect them.

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“Yes, Jontay and I recently sat down and had a conversation and talked for the first time,” Porter, 27, told The Washington Post. “And he told me about his story for the first time.” “And that was recently, and those details were kind of passed on to me. But for a long time I was looking outside as well, because for a long time he wasn’t trying to implicate the family due to the fact that the people involved were dangerous people.