Former Celtic Glen ‘Huge Child’ Davis was sentenced to 40 months in jail for his involvement in an alleged scheme to defraud the league’s healthcare advantages plan on Thursday.
Davis, who was beforehand convicted of submitting a complete of $132,000 value of fabricated medical claims for reimbursement.
Authorities allege that Davis is one in every of a number of dozen former NBA gamers who made false medical claims as a part of the league’s healthcare advantages program — 18 of whom have been convicted.
Davis was a member of the Celtics from 2007 to 2011, serving to the workforce win a championship in 2008. In 2008, he averaged 7 factors in 21.5 minutes per recreation. Throughout the ‘09 playoff run, Davis began all 14 playoff video games at heart, averaging 15.8 factors per recreation. Following his Celtics tenure, he performed three years on the Magic and two years on the Clippers, final taking part in within the NBA in 2015.
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The Expenses
In October of 2023, Glen Davis was discovered responsible of healthcare fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to make false statements, and conspiracy to commit healthcare and wire fraud. One such instance of the fraud was Davis submitting $27,200 value of dental work at a Beverly Hills dental workplace in 2018, when he was truly in Las Vegas on the time, per USA Right this moment.
His 40-month sentence is the longest any NBA participant has obtained moreover for Terrence Williams, who was the alleged ringleader of the scheme. Will Bynum and Keyon Dooling headline the record of different outstanding former gamers convicted with healthcare fraud. As a part of the decision, Davis was additionally ordered to pay $80,000 in restitution, in addition to attend lessons associated to monetary administration and obtain obligatory drug therapy.
The Broader Context
Huge Child’s verdict pales compared to quite a few outstanding gamers’ violent offenses — specifically, former and present gamers who’ve been convicted of home violence. Former Kings guard Darren Collison, for instance, obtained only a 20-day jail sentence after pleading responsible to home battery.
Evan Turner, additionally a former Celtic who overlapped with Davis within the league for 2 seasons, spoke out in assist of a extra lenient sentence, noting that former NBA quarterback Brett Favre, who allegedly defrauded Mississippi welfare recipients out of $700,000, however has averted jail time.
They Glen Davis 40 months for well being care fraud however the Brett “finesse fest” Favre remains to be galloping round within the bugle boy denims that he gave to Russ Wilson
I suppose it is “defend the ‘QB’ always” ♂️ I simply want they’d’ve carried out the identical for Vick
— Evan Turner (@thekidet) Might 10, 2024
Andre Iguodala, the manager director of the Nationwide Basketball Gamers’ Affiliation (NBPA) submitted testimony in assist of Davis in court docket.
”On behalf of all of our NBPA members previous and current, I respectfully ask that you just contemplate Glen’s accomplishments and the constructive impression he has had on these round him when figuring out his sentence,” Iguodala wrote in his letter. “I acknowledge the seriousness of this authorized matter and respect the thoroughness of the judicial course of and ask for leniency with these components in thoughts.”
