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No Nets were directly involved in the gambling investigations and indictments that shook up the sports world. But Michael Porter Jr. felt them more personally than most, with the Brooklyn forward opening up to The Post about how it hit home.
Investigations into illegal sports betting and rigged underground poker games led to the arrests of Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier and Damon Jones. And when indictments were unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, they revealed that the gamblers had threatened Jontay Porter, the Nets star’s brother, if he didn’t participate in the betting schemes.
The bombshell shook up the sports world, but Porter told The Post that he had been braced after his brother opened up to him in a heart-to-heart talk. Before that, the younger Porter brother had kept his family in the dark in an attempt to shield them.
Michael Porter Jr. of the Brooklyn Nets drives to the basket during the game against the Charlotte Hornets on October 22, 2025 at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. NBAE via Getty ImagesFollow The Post’s live updates on the bombshell NBA, Mafia gambling scandal
“Yeah, me and Jontay actually recently sat down and had a conversation and spoke for the first time. He told the extent of his story for the first time to me,” Porter, 27, told The Post. “And that was recently, and those details were kind of relayed to me. But for a long time I was kind of on the outside looking in as well, because for a long time he wasn’t trying to involve the family because of the fact that the people that were involved were dangerous people.
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