NEW YORK (AP) — Eighteen former NBA players were charged Thursday with pocketing about $2.5 million illegally by defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan in a scam that
The 18 former NBA players were charged in New York federal court, which was first reported by NBC. Those alleged claims totaled about $3.9 million, according to NBC, where the defendants got about $2.5 million of the total. The 19 NBA players include eight former Celtics: Glen“ Big Baby” Davis, Tony Allen, Milt Palacio, Darius Miles, Terrence Williams, Sebastian Telfair,.