All my vets were telling me, ‘Man, watch your money. …
Myles Turner: There are different avenues to go. When I first got to the league, obviously, you’re making — you’re a lottery pick, so you make a lot of money very quickly. I didn’t take it as seriously as I should have.
I was like, ‘Oh, someone else will handle it for me. ’ You know what I mean? Like, ‘I’ll just pay a financial advisor,’ or, ‘My parents will do it,’ this and that.
I realized right away, probably by my third or fourth year, that was the worst approach I could have taken, because all of a sudden, you start seeing money get moved around that may not have been moved around properly, or you start seeing money go to places where it shouldn’t have gone. All my vets were telling me, ‘Man, watch your money. Wake up every morning and check your account.
’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ’ I wish I would have done that earlier, because I had an advisor I worked with earlier, and he kind of scammed me out of some bread . It wasn’t substantial, but it was enough to make me raise a brow.
So after that, I started waking up, checking my accounts every single day, seeing exactly where the money was flowing. YouTube This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: All my vets were telling me, ‘Man, watch your money. …