Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter He is not the first player to be permanently banned from a North American professional sports league.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced the ban on Wednesday after a league investigation found Porter leaked confidential information to sports bettors and bet on games.
There were other suspensions, from the so-called Chicago Black Sox to Pete Rose to Donald Sterling.
baseball
One of the most notorious examples is 1919 World Series, When several Chicago White Sox players were accused of accepting money from gamblers to intentionally lose to the Cincinnati Reds. Although the eight players involved in the scandal were acquitted at trial, they were still banned for life by MLB commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis.
And Pete Rose bet on the Reds winning a championship while the all-time hitting leader played and managed the team from 1985 to 1987, a Major League Baseball investigation by attorney John Dowd found. In 1989, he agreed to a permanent suspension. .
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in 2023 I have no intention of changing Rose's ban..
football
The NFL has given players multiple indefinite suspensions that effectively end their careers.
Among them are Receiver Justin Blackmon Selected fifth overall in the 2012 draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was suspended indefinitely in November 2013 for repeated violations of the league's substance abuse policy. Similar cases include Laron Landry and Roland McClain.
Running back Ray Rice has been suspended indefinitely after a video of him assaulting his girlfriend was leaked. After that, no team wanted him.
New York Giants fullback Merle Hapes was suspended for a gambling scandal involving the 1946 championship game. He and his teammates reported being offered bribes to fix a game against the Chicago Bears, which they won. Commissioner Bart Bell then suspended Hapes indefinitely for “conduct detrimental to the NFL and professional football.” Although his suspension was lifted by Bell in December 1954, Hapes never returned.
basketball
former Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers Silver became the first player to be suspended for violating NBA rules in 2014.
Sterling was forced to sell the Clippers, permanently banned from any association with the league, and accused of racist comments recorded by his girlfriend who posted a photo of him with black players Magic Johnson and Matt Kemp. was fined $2.5 million.
In the 1950s, many players were expelled from the NBA for point-shaving charges related to their college days, and in the 1980s and '90s, a small number of players, including Chris Washburn and Roy Tarpley, were expelled for drug abuse charges. It was done.
hockey
In 1948, NHL president Clarence Campbell suspended Billy Taylor of the New York Rangers and Don Gallinger of the Boston Bruins for betting on hockey games. Both he was revived in 1970.
A century ago, after Ottawa won Game 4 of the 1927 Stanley Cup Championship, Montreal's Billy Coutu was banned for life for assaulting two referees in the hallway. He returned a few years later, but never played in the NHL again.
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