Former NBA Player Telfair Avoids Prison for Health Care Fraud

Sebastian Telfair, a onetime New York streetball legend who went on to play for several NBA teams, was spared prison time for participating in a scheme to defraud the league’s health care plan out of millions of dollars.

Telfair, 38, was sentenced Friday to three years of probation by US District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan. He was also ordered to forfeit the more than $350,000 he received from his fraudulent claims.

A former player for the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns, among other National Basketball Association teams, Telfair pleaded guilty in March and had faced as long ...