Former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter told The New Yorker he feared that mob enforcers would target his pregnant wife unless he repaid a $200,000 gambling debt.
But an investigation by the magazine suggests the Mafia figures he believed were behind the threats may not have existed.
The New Yorker’s Nick Berardini traced phone numbers supposedly belonging to supposed Mob bookmakers but instead found people already implicated in the betting scheme that ended Porter’s NBA career. None have…