A film project has earned former Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis a temporary reprieve from the start of his three-year prison term for a fraud conviction. Judge Valerie E.
FILE - Boston Celtics ’ Glen Davis, right, drives the ball past Golden State Warriors’ Ekpe Udoh during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Feb. 22, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. NEW YORK — A film project has earned former Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis a temporary reprieve from the start of his three-year prison term for a fraud conviction in Manhattan federal court.
A member of the Celtics’ 2008 title team, Davis was among about two dozen former players and others, including doctors, who were convicted over the past few years of cheating the NBA Players’ Health and Benefit Welfare Plan of over $5 million. The lawyer also wrote that film revenue “could go a long way” toward satisfying $80,000 in restitution.
At a May 9 sentencing, Davis referenced an injury that derailed his career and said that for the past five or six years, “I’ve been struggling because basketball was taken from me.”His lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, said at sentencing that Davis had faced a “colossal streak of bad luck” and was so destitute that he once asked her for $800 so he could keep his phone working.
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