Glen Davis released from prison early after 40-month sentence for fraud: ‘I’m back, baby’

Big Baby hopefully, has done some growing up following a stint in prison.

Glen Davis, who played for three NBA teams over eight seasons in the league, was released this week from prison 17 months into a 40-month sentence for his part with several other former players in defrauding the league’s health insurance plan. 

“They tried to hold me down. You know what I’m saying?” the 40-year-old Davis, a member of the Celtics’ 2008 championship team, declared earlier this week in a video posted to X. “But I’m back, man. I’m back, baby.”

Davis, 40, was among two dozen former players, also including former Lakers player Andrew Bynum, and doctors convicted in a Manhattan court in November 2023 of cheating the NBA Players’ Health and Benefit Welfare Plan out of more than $5 million over a four-year span for submitting bogus medical and dental claims.

Glen ‘Big Baby” Davis was released from prison. @RealKrisDLofton

The start of his sentence was initially delayed several months so he could complete a documentary he was working on to help pay some of the $80,000 in fines and restitution associated with this case.

Davis still faces time in a halfway house and three years of probation as part of his early release

Boston Celtics center Glen Davis (11) celebrates after making a free throw late in the fourth quarter against the New Orleans Hornets during the second half of their NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Louisiana March 19, 2011. REUTERS

“He used his time productively while serving his sentence and took many programs during that time,” attorney Brendan White told The Athletic.

“He’s ready to become a productive member of society again.”