It seems like former NBA star, Glen “Big Baby” Davis had a ball in prison. In a recent interview with Ian Bick, the former ball player opened up about how he was getting high and had a cell phone in prison.
According to Davis once he first arrived to prison he claimed that he was “handed a weed pen.” Not too long after that he also said that he received a phone. “I couldn’t believe how easy it was like I literally got a phone in two days. I had a phone so much that I never went up to the computers to put in my numbers for my family. So imagine that.”
Glen Davis was released from prison Thursday after serving 17 months of a 40-month sentencefollowing a November 2023 conviction for his involvement in a scheme to defraud the league’s healthcare plan.
Davis and fellow NBA player Will Bynum were convicted by a Manhattan jury in 2023 for filing false reimbursement claims to the NBA’s health and welfare benefit plan for medical care and procedures that were not actually performed. The two were among 19 people indicted, 18 of them former NBA players, including Tony Allen, Terrence Williams, Shannon Brown, Melvin Ely, Sebastian Telfair and Keyon Dooling.
Bynum, an eight-year NBA veteran, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in April 2024 and ordered to pay $183,000 in restitution.
Those involved in the defrauding scheme gained over $5 million in illicit profits, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. Davis submitted $132,000 worth of claims, including $27,200 worth of dental work in Beverly Hills. Authorities were able to prove he was actually in Las Vegas at the time based on cellphone data, USA Today reported.
Davis was eventually convicted of health care fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to make false statements and conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud. He faced up to 20 years in prison.
Additionally, Davis was ordered to pay $80,000 in restitution. His prison sentence was delayed by six months so that he could finish filming a documentary that would allow him to pay that penalty. Davis was also ordered to attend a financial management class and mandatory drug treatment.