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Sebastian Telfair, 2004 NBA Draft selection in the first round, has faced many legal problems over the years.
Telfair was released from prison this week after serving time for a probation violation related to his 2023 NBA game. health care fraud conviction. The former Phoenix Suns guard served his time in the same federal prison where disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is incarcerated.
Telfair told TMZ that Combs remains positive while serving his sentence.
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Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair walks away after being charged in federal court on October 7, 2021 in New York. Telfair was one of 18 people charged with trying to defraud the NBA's health plan. (David Di Delgado/Getty Images)
“Diddy keeps it down. He does what he has to do. And wherever he is, they are going to help him,” Telfair told the publication.
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Earlier this year, a jury found Combs guilty of two counts of transporting persons for the purpose of prostitution. He was acquitted of more serious charges.
In October the judge sentenced Combs to 50 months in prison behind bars. He was subsequently transferred from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to the federal prison in New Jersey known as Fort Dix, where Telfair also served his sentence.
Rapper Sean Combs attends the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (John Shearer/Getty Images)
Telfair also noted that he “couldn't imagine how Combs felt” given the lifestyle he was accustomed to after becoming famous. However, the former professional basketball player said he believes this period of adjustment could be beneficial for the Grammy Award winner.
In October 2021, Telfair became one of the 18 former NBA players accused of defrauding the league's Health and Welfare plan in a scheme investigators say involved medical expense fraud.
Phoenix Suns guard Sebastian Telfair drives the ball down the court during a game against the Utah Jazz at the US Airways Center on January 4, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Jennifer Stewart/USA Today Sports)
A few years earlier, in April 2019, former Portland Trail Blazers the security guard was convicted of one count of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. The sentence resulted from an arrest in January 2017.
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Telfair, 40, is now turning his attention to Ice Cube's 3-on-3 basketball league, Big3.
“No one knows this yet, but the contract has been signed,” he said. “I'm going for MVP.”
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