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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. Judge Valerie E. Caproni said Wednesday that Davis can wait until Oct. 22 to start serving his three-year, four-month stint for defrauding an insurance plan for NBA players and their families. She postponed his Sunday deadline to report to prison for seven weeks after his lawyer said he was working to complete a documentary film project on his life.

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Glen "Big Baby" Davis is clearly not worried about his impending prison sentence ... the ex-NBA star was all smiles this week -- telling TMZ Sports he thinks it might actually lead him to the body of his dreams. The former Boston Celtics power forward was ordered in May to spend 40 months behind bars for his role in a scheme that defrauded the NBA's Players' Health and Benefit Welfare Plan out of a ton of coin ... but when we caught up with him out at LAX, he made it apparent, he's not sweating things.

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The 38-year-old was downright jovial, and said he's "not nervous" to be thrown in the slammer. "I feel like I'm going to have good quality time in there," the former hooper said. "Learn things, meet new people. It's going to be all right."

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ClutchPoints: "That’s the only way you can stop me from eating hamburgers is to put me in jail." Glenn "Big Baby" Davis makes light of being sentenced to 40 months for defrauding the NBA's health insurance plan 👀 (via @Sheena_Marie3) pic.twitter.com/cxbucO2vJl

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Former NBA forward Glen Davis was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to 40 months in prison, plus three years' supervised release, for his Nov. 2023 conviction in an alleged scheme to defraud the league's health care benefits plan. More than 20 people, including numerous former players such as Terrence Williams and Keyon Dooling, have been sentenced in the case for filing false medical claims with the NBA Players' Health and Benefit Welfare Plan.

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A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted two former National Basketball Association players over their roles in a scheme to defraud a league healthcare plan into paying millions of dollars for bogus medical procedures.

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Glen Davis, 37, who played for three NBA teams and won a championship in 2008 with the Boston Celtics, was convicted on four counts including wire fraud, health care fraud, conspiring to commit fraud, and conspiring to make false statements. Will Bynum, 40, who played for three teams including the Detroit Pistons, was found guilty of conspiring to make false statements, but acquitted on a fraud conspiracy charge.

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Examples of the alleged fraudulent medical procedures included Davis and another player receiving crowns on the same six teeth on the same day, and Davis receiving crowns on eight teeth in Beverly Hills though he was in Nevada. Bynum, meanwhile, was accused of receiving about $182,000 on a fraudulent claim related to a chiropractic office in Encino, California, and paying Williams a $30,000 kickback.

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Robert Raiola: Former Boston Celtics forward Glen Davis was found guilty of health care fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to make false statements, and conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud.

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Bn Golliver: Glen “Big Baby” Davis on playing Victor Wembanyama: “The length I probably would have struggled with, but the body? Tomato chest. They soft. That boy looked like a little baby Bambi out there the other night, a little baby giraffe... I don’t think he could handle all this pain.”

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Glen “Big Baby” Davis, who won an NBA title with the Boston Celtics in 2008, is back in professional basketball. Well, sort of. According to Celtics.com’s Taylor Snow, Davis has been named head coach of the Charlotte Purple Jackets, a professional team in The Basketball League, which formed in 2018. The TBL has grown to 49 teams across the United States with the 2023 season beginning in March.

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Recently, coach Doc Rivers has turned to Harrell. There was a stretch where Reed was getting the look behind Embiid, but Rivers made the switch to Harrell in the win over the Charlotte Hornets in the second of a 7-game homestand. With that being said, one has to wonder if Rivers would like to have a permanent option to turn to every night to nail down a consistent rotation. “Yeah, but that may not happen and I’m fine with that,” Rivers said on Sunday at practice. “There’s a lot of teams that go through that. We won a title doing that one year. We literally did. Big Baby (Glen Davis) or Leon Powe. Tony Allen or Eddie House. They didn’t play every night, but I thought to our team, it was very healthy because it was a competition.”

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Glen Davis: Boston never showed me racism. You know it's there, you feel it... but they never showed it to me because I was like one of their own.

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The retired former Boston Celtics big man Davis was interviewed this week by VladTV. In the interview, Davis shared a wild story about a time back when he was still at LSU that he wrestled Shaquille O’Neal. The legendary O’Neal, himself a former LSU star, had met Davis at a scholarship dinner. “I was infatuated with Shaq at the time,” said Davis. “I feel like I was a Shaq minion. I ended up knowing him because I’m an athlete at LSU … I got a chance to meet the director over there with the scholarships … one of his advisors and went to dinner at [the advisor’s] house eating spaghetti. And Shaq comes out of nowhere and was like, ‘Let’s go outside.’

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