NEW YORK — Former Missouri Tiger and Ex-NBA player Jontay Porter admitted Wednesday that 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.
Echoing findings in an NBA investigation and allegations in an ongoing prosecution of four other men, Porter acknowledged that 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 bond while awaiting sentencing set for Dec. 18.
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