Hubris-free, one-car Foyle is pro athlete to love

It's easy to see what happens. Players get caught up in their own arrogance and hauteur. Some come from little or no money and their natural reaction is to spend lavishly once the checking account is brimming with cash.

Other players also take care of numerous family members including parents and close friends. People around them siphon the money and athletes don't possess the nerve to tell people to fend for themselves (see: get a job).

There are also the unbelievable scams. Some player agents rip off their clients. Unscrupulous accountants have been known to charge NBA players six-figure fees to prepare their taxes. Some players just aren't financially savvy enough to understand the rip-offs (just like a lot of non-athletes aren't).

Yet a lot of the blame lies at the size 18 feet of the player. One NBA player spoke of knowing another professional player who owned 14 cars. He would drive one vehicle during one part of the day and the second during another. Some people take two vitamins daily; some NBA players take two cars.

A decade ago former Boston guard Anderson told the New York Times about his lavish lifestyle that included owning eight cars.

No one made Anderson buy those cars at gunpoint.

This brings us back to Foyle.

We need more players like Foyle to speak publicly about this issue. Very few leagues and players do and I think the phenomenon of broke athletes is a far more potent and troublesome issue than generally known.

Foyle is the perfect person to address it. Not only was a donkey his main form of transportation while growing up impoverished in Canuouan, St. Vincent and the Grenadines due to the lack of availability of cars, he also read books and studied his schoolwork via kerosene lamp. He didn't have running water or electricity.

The poverty he experienced made him appreciate the wealth he has now, not flaunt it.

This is why Foyle is now my favorite athlete and I'm man enough to say: I heart him, I really heart him.