I know two NBA players who go to great lengths to avoid their mothers because mom fleeced 'em for years. One doesn't go to his home town because he has to avoid his relatives. This season an NBA all-star, at the end of an interview, told me not to leave him alone with a guy who had been standing nearby. My first cousin,' he said. People with questionable business deals.
Athletes are often the targets of business con games because they are assumed to be rich, but naive.
Groupies offering sex. Because top athletes have status in society, they attract people willing to provide sex to get close to them. Ever since basketball superstar Magic Johnson revealed that he was HIV-positive, athletes have been warned about promiscuity. Athletes rarely know who their friends are, and that extends to women. That goes back to the days of Babe Ruth.