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Glen Davis was released from prison on March 12 after serving 17 months for his role in a scheme to defraud the NBA’s Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan
Davis’ attorney, Brendan White, said the former NBA player “used his time productively while serving his sentence and took many programs during that time”
Davis had been sentenced to serve 40 months in 2024 after being convicted of defrauding the NBA insurance policy
Former NBA star Glen “Big Baby” Davis has been released from prison.
Davis, 40, was released on Thursday, March 12, after serving 17 months for his role in a scheme to defraud the NBA’s Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan, according to The Athletic, New York Post and TMZ.
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“He used his time productively while serving his sentence and took many programs during that time,” Davis’ attorney, Brendan White, told The Athletic. “He’s ready to become a productive member of society again.”
Glen David in 2015
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Not long after he was released from prison, the former NBA player was seen in a video on X, saying, “They tried to hold me down. You know what I’m saying? But I’m back, man. I’m back, baby.”
Davis was convicted in November 2023 for defrauding the NBA’s Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan for more than $5 million over the course of several years, according to The Athletic.
The former Boston Celtics player was sentenced to serve three years and four months in prison. He was supposed to report to prison in September 2024, but a judge granted him a seven-week delay so that he would have more time to finish filming a documentary about his life.
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He was also ordered to pay back $80,000, and he is scheduled to have three years of supervision following this prison sentence.
Twenty-two people, including former NBA players and doctors, were charged in a conspiracy to defraud the league’s benefits plan, ESPN previously reported.
Following his imprisonment, the former NBA player will enter a halfway house to help him transition out of prison, according to The Athletic. During this time he will take financial management classes and drug treatment, which were mandated by his sentence, per the outlet.
He is scheduled to be released from the halfway house on July 9.
Glen Davis playing in the BIG3 league in 2019
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Davis played for the NBA for eight years as a forward-center. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics in 2007 and won the 2008 NBA Championship with the team. He left the team and signed on with the Orlando Magic from 2011 to 2013. He finished his career with the Los Angeles Clippers, playing there from 2013 to 2015.
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He also played one final professional season with the St. John’s Edge in the former National Basketball Association of Canada before retiring from professional basketball in 2019.
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