Has any of you heard about Malik Beasley's federal investigation in a case about his possible involvement in rigging games and possibly betting on his own game as well? For those who are not familiar with him, he is an NBA player who supposed to have a good contract for the next season with the Detroit Pistons. He is not the first player in the NBA to do this though. There were several who got banned already and I think some of them had a jail time.
This is a prime example of how gambling could ruin any career if greed takes over and self discipline is mismanaged. The Detroit Pistons was reportedly ready to offer Beasley a three-year, $42 million contract and he blew it, possibly permanently if his proven guilty of this accusation.
There have been a lot of cases already about a person who got greedy in gambling and eventually got broke. So, this right here serves another lesson that we need to control ourselves when we engage into gambling.
This is not really about controlling oneself but knowing and setting priorities, a player is not supposed to be gambling totally, let alone he or she betting on his or her own games, this is the height of being stupid if you would allow me to use that word, what actually was he thinking when placing such bets, how much money was he hoping to make from this bet that is worth more than the amount of money he's being paid as an NBA player?
Anyways, lets not go too far because according what you said, investigations is still ongoing and the player involved may still win the case as not guilty, but if this turns out to be true that he is guilty as charged, then this is something he definitely would live the rest of his life regretting.