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Message: [QUOTE="M2MPrinciples, post: 5539589, member: 928"] Yes. At absolute minimum, teams and leagues should've been prohibited off the rip from partnering with gambling sites because of the clear conflicts of interest. It's less of an integrity issue with media rights partners but just tacky as hell, and that was before the proliferation of ads between pitches and free throw attempts. And from the players' perspective it's clear that better education is needed. Antoine Walker bled his entire fortune in months because he was so emotionally immature about needing to have the best car, wardrobe and house. But a lot of other players feel a real need to pass their fortune to the relatives and people who sacrificed for them, which is well-intentioned, but they struggle to draw a line. It's not the fourth and fifth cars they buy for themselves, but the houses and cars they get for the people from their childhoods. [/QUOTE]