I worked as a sports reporter before working as a sports editor... yeah, for most high profile athletes, their personal growth ends at around 12, which is about the time people discover they have talent. Oh well, we forgive them. They make bad choices, but some of them aren't so bad choice makers.
Take Dallas Cowboy's Michael Irving, for example. Okay, he got busted in a hotel room with two prostitutes, a couple ounces of weed and a couple ounces of cocaine, but that's a good decision in my book. NBC and ESPN looked pasted it a couple years later when they hired him to do half-time color commentary.
Showing up to court pimped out in a full length mink coat and matching wide-brim hat, now that was a bad choice in my book.