"My thought". The NBA definitely chose the right player to make an example of in this matter. It brought the message/warning across, and it didn't give them a hard decision because he isn't a player whose name is spelled L-E-B-R-O-N. Because if it was actually a player such as Lebron or one of those "highly-endorsed" players, then we could truly expect the NBA to hide this matter from the public, OR have the player make a "public apology" + a suspension, but not a life-time ban.
I think all NBA players are still popular because all are good players but there are only some who excels a little than the rest and they do because they prove they can. They are most importantly honest about their plays but I think NBA won't give an exception even to them once proven guilty of getting involved in such act.
They need to be fair and transparent or else their reputation is the ones who will get affected and many people won't support them anymore. Doing such disciplinary measures is great, so that there will be no or there are only less players who will attempt of committing such act. I'm sure most players will choose both fame and money over money only and get a bad name.
The organization should really be fair and square on whatever the decisions that they are making and they wont really be that obviously making out some decisions which it would be showing that they are really bias
because once the public will really be able to notice something in regarding about those decisions then it would really be that bringing out that huge question and would really be making issues.
There should really be no exemptions that if ever there's a player that would be able to violate those terms then it would really be that understandable that they would be face up those consequences.
In regarding about this Porter's violation then i do somewhat agree that it is really just that too much on having that lifetime ban. Isnt there some sort of 1st or 2nd warning in regarding with these
kind of violations? If this turns out to be final then there's nothing we can do but to accept it out.