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Eighteen former NBA players were charged Thursday October 7 with illegally pocketing about $2.5 million by defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan in a scam that authorities said
Great teacher. >> yes. >> he's inspiring and has these guys playing great basketball, and no one really picked him to be here earlier in the year as he said. >> most surprising of the four teams here, i would say. >> a lot of that goes to coach kevin ollie. >> you bring up the nba. played 13 years. not an all-star bought role player. brought in to mentor younger players. kevin durant in oklahoma city. how do you think experience helped him become this coach we're seeing here. >> invaluable, rachel, when you talk about his life experiences in the game, as a player, as you mentioned, not a stand...
-- congratulatory tweets. but in the end, how well did he do? >> you have to take this in context. he's been in the league for 12 years. during those 12 years he's averaged 3.5 or a point per game and 3.6 rebounds per game. everything on that end was normal. he's a role player, a defensive player. he's a big body and he can contribute and that's why he's back in the league, because of his basketball. all of this other now is not the reason that he's in the league. now, some may have thought and jason himself has even alluded that he is a basketball player and perhaps he didn't get an opportuni...
And prove himself out there. if he does sign this contract, he would be the first openly gay athlete not just in the nba but in any of the four major sports leagues in north america. >> and it's not just a statement for him, but it's also a statement for the brooklyn nets, because there has been this lapse of time. it was april when he came out. there has been this elapse of time. any team could have come forward and this is the first one as far as we know to at least extent a contract, a deal. >> absolutely, yeah. he's had a very long career in the nba. he's an older guy now shall he's 35 yea...