Report: Former Detroit Pistons guard Will Bynum sentenced to 18 months in insurance fraud scheme

According to ESPN, former Detroit Pistons guard Will Bynum, 41, was sentenced to 18 months in a scandal involving NBA insurance fraud.

The 41-year-old, who spent six years with the Pistons, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday (April 16).

Officials revealed a complex conspiracy, with Bynum at its center, involving the submission of false dental and medical claims to the NBA Players’ Health and Benefit Welfare Plan.

The 41-year-old and 20 others were convicted, with many of them being former NBA athletes.

Court documents say the former Pistons guard and other former NBA players schemed to defraud the welfare plan from 2018 – 2019; the 6′0″, 185-pound guard was said to have received fake invoices showing $200,000 in medical services that he had undergone in Los Angeles which had never occurred.

The former players were convicted in November 2023, with some already receiving sentencing.

Bynum was ordered to forfeit $182,000 while also paying restitution of the same amount after sentencing.

The Chicago native averaged 8.1 points per game, 3.3 assists per game, and 1.6 rebounds in 9 seasons in the association.

Bynum, an undrafted rookie out of Georgia Tech by the Golden State Warriors in 2005-2006, helped the Pistons reach the playoffs in 2009 and averaged 11.8 points per game in 19.6 minutes.