When you are a rookie in any professional sport, you go through the process of learning basic finance. The league brings in people to teach finance, how to deal with the media, drug counselors, how to act on the road, etc. Teams also employ people to work with the athletes.
Iverson is no different than any athlete who thinks he knows better than the people coming in to teach them about what not to do. He looks down at the person teaching because being Alan Iverson makes millions and this person is just a teacher.
After the parties, after the posse, after the divorces and child support, after the back taxes on the home, after paying a monthly stipend to your accountant and lawyer, after you wake up one morning and realize it is all gone, by then it is too late.
He became another dumb schmuck who got paid to play a game and didn’t listen to a word either his professors in college or his teachers said.
And how much do you want to bet he blames somebody else for being broke.