Rockets’ Fred VanVleet shares tale of being accosted by a jilted bettor — in church

Source: New York Post

Unfortunately, stories of deranged sports bettors accosting professional athletes over losing bets are becoming all too common. Seemingly every week, we get a story about a tennis player getting harassed in their DMs, or gamblers lobbing threats at professional athletes for missing an easy shot or making a mistake. Most of these instances are confined to social media, but it turns out that no place is off-limits for these unhinged bettors.