No Nets were directly involved in the gambling investigations and indictments that shook up the sports world. But Michael Porter Jr. felt them more personally than most, with the Brooklyn forward opening up to The Post about how it hit home.

Investigations into illegal sports betting and rigged underground poker games led to the arrests of Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier and Damon Jones. And when indictments were unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, they revealed that the gamblers had threatened Jontay Porter, the Nets star’s brother, if he didn’t participate in the betting schemes.

The bombshell shook up the sports world, but Porter told The Post that he had been braced after his brother opened up to him in a heart-to-heart talk. Before that, the yo

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