Yes. Or for making a shot.

If you read some of the now-copious reporting about gamblers targeting athletes with death threats, you'll see that they have people screaming at them and threatening them violently both for performing badly and for performing well.

Truly unhinged and alarming that gambling has been legalized and marketed so quickly and so extensively, in so many forms.

Related to your comment, see Nate Silver's take on the NBA gambling scandal.

"Player props are inherently more subject to manipulation because only one player needs to be involved in rigging the outcome. [...] Even as someone more sympathetic to gambling than most people you’re probably reading on this story, I’m not sure I’d really care if player prop bets were banned entirely. They produce abusive behavior toward players. They also often put team and individual performance into tension with one another..."

https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-nba-gambling-scandal-explai...