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Glen Davis: I've been knowing JJ (Redick) since I was 14. The AAU circuit. He played on Boo Williams team. I got a chance to see him. Right. Got a chance to see how the way he was. Then I got a chance to play on the under21 USA team with with JJ. And you know, from my experiences with that, I didn't never know he was gonna be a f*cking coach. Motherf*cker was an a**hole You know what I mean? Like JJ was an a**hole. Like he was a a**hole type of guy, you know? I didn't know how cool he was until I played with him in Orlando. I got a chance to meet JJ and how he was. JJ was straightforward. Come in, work, get up out of here. He'll conversate, talk a little bit, you know what I mean? But JJ, you know, was straight business, you know what I mean? So, I can see that part of the game of why he got hired cuz he's a technician as far as his routine and what he does and how he works out, what he eats, you know what I mean?

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Glen Davis: People evolve and they change and they develop. And I think that's what you see with JJ, right? And he's handled himself in the right way and and and he's knowledgeable about the game, right? He played it, you know what I mean? So, it's just like what better experience, you know what I mean, can you get, you know?

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"I remember when JJ Redick was trying to get a contract when he played for the Clippers, but it seemed like the owner didn't want to pay for him. And he didn't really want to pay for him because he was white. Is that true? Glen Davis: No. JJ is the token white man. Everybody is giving JJ a contract."

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Glen Davis on Doc Rivers: "He was a good motivator and he was a good offensive scheme coach. He knew what to do offensively. And he was a good motivator meaning as far as just the moment. There were moments where we needed him to say something to push us through and he would come and say something dope. But as far as player-wise, I think he was a horrible coach for players. When you look at all the players that he's kind of killed their careers as far as just, it's like he he got a lot of kills. He killed a lot of players that could have played a little bit more, but you know."

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Glen Davis: "Shaq was a real playful guy. And when I first met him, it was kind of crazy because I was kind of stalking him a little bit. I was like at all, and then I literally I was like about 15, 16. My friend was driving, he had a car at the time and we followed him, and I ended up eating dinner with him and he's like, come outside. I'm like, what? For what? What do you want me to come outside for? He was like, let's wrestle. And I'm like, what the hell? So, like I'm trying to eat my spaghetti I got in there, you know what I mean? So, we ended up wrestling, man, and I pinned him on the ground and his mentor, Dr. Mallet, he worked at the university as academic advisor, he was like, get off him, get off him. You gonna hurt him. I was like, okay, he wanted to wrestle me. Right. Yeah."

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Glen Davis: "When I think about it now, where I was so early in my career, I took it for granted in a way. I didn't understand the situation I was in, the opportunity that I truly really had, and just being able to be a part of history at that moment. I remember I had the ball at the end of the game and I just threw it in the air like I didn't care. That's memorabilia. You got to keep that ball. And now just being in a situation and seeing the effect a championship has to fans, it's a great feeling. And then I learned so much, not just basketball, but just life lessons. You got Kevin Garnett, you got Ray Allen, you got Paul Pierce. You got all those different guys that do it differently in their way. So to be able to see Ticket, to be able to see Ray, and Paul be special in their own way was pretty cool."

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Glen Davis: "I grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I would have to say my upbringing was pretty tough. Growing up in a drug-infested neighborhood, killings every day. Mom on drugs, didn't know who my father was at the time. I grew up in a very special place."

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Glen Davis on his reflection in solitary confinement: "Nothing but time to reflect, like nothing but time every single day thinking about all the mistakes and everything that I've done and just, uh, sometimes I wanted to pull my eyes out my head because of just like, bro, you're in jail. People were sitting here idolizing you in jail. Like, yo, Big Baby, oh my god, yo, yo, yo, yo, big baby. Bro, bro, bro. Love you on the Celtics, bro. You need anything, bro. You know, I got you. That was every day in jail."

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Davis says the NBA picked him over other retired players mentioned in the investigation, leading him to spend nearly two years in prison in addition to three years of supervision. Big Baby expressed his frustration with the process that led to his imprisonment while others mentioned in the indictment, including his former Boston Celtics teammates Kendrick Perkins and Tony Allen, didn't, he explained, per Locked In with Ian Bick. “They literally wanted to make me out to be an example. There was a lot of people that got investigated,” Davis said. “Kendrick Perkins, you see him on ESPN. Tony Allen—he was literally the third person on the indictment, with his wife. He's not walking in jail. Darius Miles—he's not walking in jail. And these guys got money, like thousands of dollars. How'd I end up in jail and these guys are on probation/walking free; their whole life is still intact. “I think the NBA let the feds pick who they wanted to choose. 180 people were investigated/supenoed. We didn't hear about all those people. We just heard about the 22 people that got caught, or that got jammed in the situation. A lot of people pleaded out. They didn't go to jail. They didn't even go get time served.”

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“They actually stole money. Thousands — hundreds of thousands of dollars. Your favorite podcast, people you see on different podcasts,” Davis added. “Matt Barnes, Stephen Jack; all those people were investigated. Gilbert Arenas, Corey Maggette, Cutino Mobley; thousands of NBA players were investigated. They just let some of them go to jail. Some of them, the fed got, like, Tony Allen. He didn't go to jail. Whatever he did to get free.”

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‪NBA Stat‬: Where are they now... Glen “Big Baby” Davis has just been released from prison after serving 1 year and 10 months out of a 3-year sentence for defrauding the NBA’s Health & Benefit Welfare Plan. #NBA

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A film project has earned former Boston Celtics forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis a temporary reprieve from the start of his three-year prison term for a fraud conviction in Manhattan federal court. Judge Valerie E. Caproni said Wednesday that Davis can wait until Oct. 22 to start serving his three-year, four-month stint for defrauding an insurance plan for NBA players and their families. She postponed his Sunday deadline to report to prison for seven weeks after his lawyer said he was working to complete a documentary film project on his life.

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Glen "Big Baby" Davis is clearly not worried about his impending prison sentence ... the ex-NBA star was all smiles this week -- telling TMZ Sports he thinks it might actually lead him to the body of his dreams. The former Boston Celtics power forward was ordered in May to spend 40 months behind bars for his role in a scheme that defrauded the NBA's Players' Health and Benefit Welfare Plan out of a ton of coin ... but when we caught up with him out at LAX, he made it apparent, he's not sweating things.

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The 38-year-old was downright jovial, and said he's "not nervous" to be thrown in the slammer. "I feel like I'm going to have good quality time in there," the former hooper said. "Learn things, meet new people. It's going to be all right."

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