Longtime NBA player Sebastian Telfair, who was scheduled to begin serving a prison sentence Tuesday, asked President Donald Trump for a pardon just hours before his incarceration.
“I know Donald Trump’s got some big things going on, but Donald Trump, I need you to come holla’ … give your boy a pardon so I could stay home with my baby,” Telfair told TMZ on Monday.
Telfair, a New York City high school phenom who played for eight NBA teams between 2004 and 2015 after being drafted in the first round, repeated his plea.
“Trump, go check in on my story and you’re definitely going to want to pardon me. You’ll hold me accountable and want me to continue to go do good. But I did too good” to be sent to jail, he said.
Telfair was among many NBA players who were charged with running up fake medical bills on the league’s health care plan to extract millions of ill-gotten dollars.
