Basketball
| Name | Team when arrested | Offense | Sentence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg "Cadillac" Anderson | Retired | drug trafficking | five months | |
| Billy Ray Bates | Retired | robbery; assault | seven years | |
| Lonny Baxter | Mens Sana Basket (Italy), formerly with Charlotte Bobcats | gun possession | two months | |
| Luther "Ticky" Burden | released/retired (New York Knicks) | receiving stolen property | two years | Originally sentenced to 6 to 18 years for Bank Robbery, conviction was voided. |
| Corie Blount | retired | felony marijuana possession | one year | |
| Allen Iverson | Bethel High School (Hampton, Virginia) | maiming by mob | five years | pardoned by Governor after serving 4 months, conviction later overturned on appeal. See also No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson, a TV documentary on this case. |
| Henry James | retired | dealing cocaine | five years | |
| "Fast" Eddie Johnson | retired | burglary, robbery, drug possession, sexual assault on a minor | various, given life sentence in 2008 | |
| Jack Molinas | Fort Wayne Pistons | bribing players to fix games | ten to fifteen years | served five years. |
| Tom Payne | Atlanta Hawks | rape (multiple convictions) | various, most recently sentenced to 15 years in 2000 Page at Kentucky DOC | |
| Ruben Patterson | Seattle SuperSonics | third degree rape | 1 year | served 15 days |
| Isaiah Rider | retired (Minnesota Timberwolves) | possession of cocaine, battery, evading a police officer | seven months | |
| Charles E. Smith | Boston Celtics | vehicular homicide | 4½ years | served 28 months |
| Jay Vincent | retired (NBA and Lega Basket Italian, numerous teams) | mail fraud, tax fraud | five and a half years | |
| Sylvester "Sly" Williams | retired | kidnapping | five years | released after serving 3½ years. profile at New York DOC |
Read more about this topic: List Of Professional Sportspeople Convicted Of Crimes
Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)