To some degree all professional athletes are ill developed humans, it's the nature of focusing wholly on one thing during the most important years of youth, the NFL and NBA players issues are compounded by the worship of high school and collage sports in the US, at least soccer and hockey players have relative anonymity until they reach the big show.
You add to that a large portion of players that come from dreadful social backgrounds with little appropriate adult support in the NFL and NBA and high schools and colleges that view these kids as little more than meat for the grinder.
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