Former NBA player Jontay Porter admitted Wednesday he schemed to take himself out of games for gambling’s sake, pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy crime in the scandal that already got him banned from the league.
“I know what I did was wrong, unlawful, and I am deeply sorry,” the former Toronto Raptors centre said in New York as he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Echoing findings in an NBA investigation and allegations in an ongoing prosecution of four other men, Porter acknowledged he agreed to withdraw early from games so that co-conspirators could win bets on his performance.
He did it, he said, “to get out from under large gambling debts.”
Porter, 24, is free on $250,000 US bond while awaiting sentencing set …
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