Ex-NBA Player Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis Gets 40 Months for Fraud

Former National Basketball Association player Glen “Big Baby” Davis was ordered to spend more than three years behind bars for participating in a scheme to defraud the league’s health care plan out of millions of dollars.

Davis was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison by US District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan. The former Boston Celtic was among the biggest names implicated in the scandal, which involved more than a dozen ex-players. Prosecutors said they made false claims for medical and dental procedures that they never received.

A jury convicted Davis and another former player, William Bynum, in ...