04-17-2024, 01:19 PM
(04-17-2024, 12:25 PM)fifteenth Wrote: You may not mean this, but I think of "making an example" as having a component of being overly harsh. I don't think this punishment was overly harsh. My opinion of course. But I don't think you can have any softness whatsoever regarding betting on games and rigging results. Folks in other sports have been banned for life for this same thing.
What about the league and its refs? I certainly don't think the "betting and rigging" is a thing with refs right now after the scandals of prior years, but we have plenty of evidence and moral certainty that the league is doing the rigging thing, for its own perceived benefit ***right freaking now*** with the L.A. (Silver) Lakers.
Porter's lifetime ban is the height of hypocrisy from where I'm sitting, but maybe I'm just full of the same crap you humbly accuse yourself of having issues with.