.Aug 29, 2024, 04:25 PM ETNEW YORK-- A movie task has gained previous Boston Celtics forward Glen "Big Infant" Davis a short-term respite from the start of his three-year prison condition for a scams sentence in Manhattan government court.Judge Valerie E. Caproni said Wednesday that Davis may wait till Oct. 22 to start offering his three-year, four-month assignment for defrauding an insurance coverage plan for NBA gamers and their families. She postponed his Sunday due date to state to prison for 7 weeks after his legal representative claimed he was working to complete a docutainment task on his life.A participant of the Celtics' 2008 title group, Davis was actually amongst about pair of loads former gamers and also others, featuring physicians, who were actually pronounced guilty over recent couple of years for cheating the NBA's gamers wellness and also advantage welfare plan of over $5 million.On Tuesday, lawyer Brendan White requested the hold-up for Davis, pointing out a Hollywood manufacturing firm's necessity to complete its task. White wrote that problems in the project were caused by challenges arranging job interviews with expert teammates and also coworkers that require to talk to Davis on film.Editor's PicksThe attorney created that movie profits "can go a long way" towards pleasing $80,000 in restitution.In her purchase approving the postponement, Caproni created that Davis "is obligated to repay notable reparation" to a target and she hopes that "optimism regarding the financial incentives of the movie is actually necessitated." At a Might 9 sentencing, Davis referenced a personal injury that thwarted his occupation and claimed that for recent 5 or even six years, "I have actually been actually having a hard time given that basketball was actually drawn from me."" That is actually all I know. I was actually pro at that," he stated. "But when I shed basketball, I shed myself." His lawyer Sabrina Shroff mentioned at sentencing that Davis had faced a "huge touch of misfortune" and was actually therefore destitute that he once asked her for $800 so he could possibly keep his phone working.Caproni mentioned back then, however, that Davis hadn't fully accepted probation division police officers and had not taken actions to address his problems.Federal prosecutor Ryan Finkel said to the judge at punishing that Davis was "probably the best effective basketball player" caught in the insurance coverage conspiracy.Davis, 38, played for the Celtics, Orlando Miracle and also Los Angeles Clippers from 2007 to 2015 after leading LSU to the 2006 Ultimate Four.