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These LA Clippers are involved in the NBA Healthcare fraud scheme

By Evan Desai

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On Thursday, news broke that there are 18 former NBA players and a player’s wife who is involved in a $4 million NBA Healthcare fraud scheme.

Many former LA Clippers are involved. The former players are hit with charges of defrauding the health and welfare benefit plan of the league, per an indictment on Thursday. Authorities have said that at least 16 of the 19 were in custody.

Essentially, the indictment reported that the players are defrauding the health and welfare benefit plan through submitting fraudulent and dishonest claims to be paid back for medical costs that were never reimbursed to them. The indictment said that the defendants have been up to this from at least 2017 to 2020, where the league received false claims that reached around $3.9 million. The defendants brought in about $2.5 million out of that.

Former LA Clippers Darius Miles, Sebastian Telfair, and Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis were three of the ex-Clips involved.

Darius Miles was a No. 3 overall pick for the LA Clippers back in 2000. A 2000-2001 All-Rookie selection, Miles didn’t do much more for the franchise and was on his way out after his sophomore season. The small forward never developed a three-point shot, never averaged more than 9.5 points per game for the team, and only started 27 games for us.

Journeyman Sebastian Telfair didn’t play for the Clippers for too long. He played for them for just part of a season and played just 14.9 minutes per game. Like Miles, he had a tough time shooting from deep for LA, and put up just 4.3 points per game and 2.9 assists per contest.

Glen Davis played for the Clips a bit longer than Telfair, as he played with them for part of 2013-2014 through 2014-2015. He was well past his prime when he played for us, though. Averaging just four points and 2.5 rebounds per game for the Clips, he didn’t play much.

A former NBA World Champion, Davis was part of some of the many Lob City teams that had the makings of a championship team and couldn’t come through.

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This whole scheme is something I was not expecting to hear about this week, but here we are. None of these Clippers were known as stars in LA, but still eye-opening that our team was involved.

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