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The NBA has issued a lifetime ban to Jontay Porter after he was found to have broken the league's strict gaming rules.
A league investigation found Toronto's two-way player both disclosed confidential health information to sports bettors and bet on games himself.
Porter, the league said, gave a bettor information about his own health status prior to Toronto's game on March 20 against the Sacramento Kings.
The league said another individual, known to be an NBA bettor, placed an $80,000 bet that Porter would not hit the numbers set for him in parlays through an online sports book. That bet would have won $1.1million.
Porter took himself out of that game after only a few minutes, claiming illness, none of his stats meeting the totals set in the parlay. The bet was frozen and not paid out, and the NBA started an investigation.
The NBA has issued a lifetime ban to Jontay Porter for breaking the league's gaming rules
The probe also found that on the 13 NBA bets made by Porter himself, the total payout was $76,059. That gave him net winnings of $21,965. Three of the bets were multi-game parlays - one of which featured the Raptors to lose.
Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr., signed a two-way contract with the Raptors on December 8. He earned $415,000 this season and has brought in $2.8m in career NBA earnings so far.
An NBA statement read: 'The NBA announced today that Jontay Porter, a two-way player recently under contract with the Toronto Raptors, has been banned from the NBA.
'A league investigation found that Porter violated league rules by disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes, and betting on NBA games.
'The league's investigation found that prior to the Raptors' March 20 game, Porter disclosed confidential information about his own health status to an individual he knew to be an
