Straight forward answer this is not about gambling ruining his career.
This is a pour case of greed and for sure double dipping is a big offense, it means you cheating everyone at your own table, players are meant to stay off from such actions.
So let not blame this on gambling, but its on him all the way.
Completely agree with this, and no wonder you earned some merits for the post, which are not very common in this section.
What this guy did was way over the top. It is hard to imagine something more stupid than this actually. NBA players already make hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions. What could he possibly want more I don’t know.
Maybe there is something we are missing here. Perhaps he comes from an environment where cheating is the norm, many of these players come from unstructured environments surrounded by crime.