Keyon Dooling Shares His Story of His Involvement in the NBA Healthcare Scheme

Ajouté : 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]I asked myself, like, how [music] did I get here?

[00:00:05]Will I ever be able to recover >> [music] >> from this?

[00:00:08]>> And coach Keyon Dooling was arrested Wednesday for his involvement in the [music] NBA fraud scheme.

[00:00:13]>> have to answer for their violations of law.

[00:00:17]>> I knew that I had done wrong. I had >> [music] >> convinced myself that I was I'm not doing this out of greed.

[00:00:26]I'm doing this to help my family.

[00:00:28][music] That's where I told myself the wrong story.

[00:00:36]>> [music] [music] [music] >> I did not greet the brother this morning.

[00:01:03]What up, Tampa?

[00:01:04]What you doing, bro?

[00:01:05]>> So, I can wear this?

[00:01:06]>> Yeah, you can wear whatever you want, bro.

[00:01:09]>> I want to >> When I first got into the league, I think I was a young player just trying to find myself.

[00:01:20]I I think, [music] you know, a lot of times our relationship to money, when we first come into it, is [music] like as a ATM machine.

[00:01:29]>> In that moment when you're [music] playing, you feel like nothing can touch you. And then when you come out of it and it's over and you introduced into the real world, like, boom, like everything don't cater to you anymore.

[00:01:48]>> You know, I was accustomed to living a certain way and not making what I was making but prior to that. And I saw an easy way to tap into some of the resources that I thought nobody would look at.

[00:02:00]>> Another big story today, more [music] than a dozen former NBA players have been indicted in an alleged health insurance scheme.

[00:02:06]>> A group of high-profile former pros facing years behind bars >> [music] >> for allegedly making fake insurance claims and illegally collecting big payouts from the league's health care benefit plan.

[00:02:16]>> The plan reimburses medical [music] expenses, but it does not permit players to be reimbursed for services they never received.

[00:02:23]>> Yeah, at the time I didn't think big deal at [music] all.

[00:02:27]My first conversation with the doctor, he would swipe my [music] supplemental health care benefits card, and >> [music] >> he would, you know, basically get 500, and I would get 500.

[00:02:39]If somebody was struggling or anything like [music] that, I even, you know, connected them with the doctors.

[00:02:46]I have to be real, you know, I >> [music] >> didn't stop initially because I was able to do it again, >> [music] >> and I was able to do it again.

[00:02:55]And so I didn't stop.

[00:03:03]>> Like these kind of like the responsibilities that we'll have like throughout the course of the week, you know, picking up, organizing, labeling.

[00:03:14]So what was your head?

[00:03:18]>> Well, he didn't first tell me what was happening, the police did.

[00:03:22]>> I got the call, you know, from the feds at about 5:30, something like that, in the morning. And so I went and, you know, just pushed Tash out, woke her up like, "Tash, yo."

[00:03:35]"Man, I'm about to go to jail."

[00:03:37]>> They just bum rushed in.

[00:03:40]Yeah.

[00:03:41]My kids in their sleep, they walking all in my house with shoes on.

[00:03:46]>> So I told them, "Hey, man, look, my kids are downstairs sleeping. Like take me in the car now. Like I don't want them to have to, you know, see me like this.

[00:03:55]And so, yeah, they put me in the car, took me away, and that's my first time being arrested.

[00:04:03]>> [music] >> We have some breaking news of a Utah Jazz assistant coach that has been arrested. [music] The rewritten indictment added dueling to the case first brought in October when federal officials said a number of former NBA players combined to collect about $2.5 million from the benefit plan.

[00:04:26]>> Yeah.

[00:04:27]Yeah, she was by his side about it.

[00:04:33]>> It was rough. It was Oh God, [music] embarrassing.

[00:04:39]You know what I mean? Like, it was rough.

[00:04:43]And I still like the only word I really have for that situation. It did the worst the worst [music] thing I ever probably did.

[00:04:52]>> This pain feels different, you know, [music] because it's it's pain that self-imposed pain.

[00:05:01]You know, I put myself and my family in a bad position.

[00:05:07]I didn't need the money.

[00:05:09]You know, it was more so, you know, um not wanting to face [music] the real truths about, you know, our lifestyle changing.

[00:05:26]>> I can't stand a snitch. That's why I tell y'all stop don't don't be tattletaling all the time.

[00:05:32]Stop snitching. If you see your friends do something, that's on them.

[00:05:36]I ain't got nothing to do with you. Mhm.

[00:05:39]>> Come on, Granny. There you go, Granny.

[00:05:42]>> And then Kim went to jail for not snitching. Y'all big ass, y'all too big for that.

[00:05:47]>> To hear people on wiretaps that [music] you've known you know, since you were a kid.

[00:05:53]>> Ate at my house.

[00:05:54]>> That you've helped.

[00:05:56]>> Meet us at the hotels, all kind of >> Yeah.

[00:05:59]>> Come see us and You know what I'm saying? Like How you >> To hear them on that wiretap trying to incriminate you, it's it's it's >> That's that's crazy.

[00:06:09]>> Yeah. It makes [music] you distrust people.

[00:06:11]>> Mhm.

[00:06:16]>> I just feel a little I just feel sad.

[00:06:18]You know what I'm saying? I do feel sad that tomorrow I'm leaving.

[00:06:22]And I'm going to be away from my family.

[00:06:23]>> [music] >> You know, I've been their protector.

[00:06:25]I've been their provider their entire life. And and [music] you know, now I'm not going to be in that element. You know, you worry that >> [music] >> you know, did you equip your kids, you know, well enough to be able to get through this [music] adverse time?

[00:06:44]In my head you know, I'm thinking like, you know You know, I just hope everybody, you know, we >> [music] >> just hope we be all right.

[00:07:08]Okay. Okay. Okay.

[00:07:12]Oh, what day?

[00:07:14]>> In the restaurant.

[00:07:14]>> Oh.

[00:07:16]Father God, I just ask that you just be with us, Father God, in my absence, Father God. Father God, give us strength, Father God. Give us strength, Father God. We need you, Father God.

[00:07:25]We're not strong enough individually, Father God. We love you. We worship you.

[00:07:29]We give you all the glory in the mighty name of Jesus. We all say Amen. Amen. Amen. And amen and again.

[00:07:39]All right. Well, let's Man, this ain't the kind of road trip I'm used to.

[00:07:47]>> [laughter] >> I'm used to a different kind of road trip.

[00:07:56]So, today is the day I turn myself in.

[00:08:05]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Hey.

[00:08:27]Love y'all.

[00:08:28]All right.

[00:08:30]Love y'all.

[00:08:31]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:08:33]Yeah. Hell yeah.

[00:09:06]My pain created my power cuz I think I'm more powerful now and more strong-minded and more willful. Like none of that material all that material stuff, like the Lord had to remove that out of my life so that he can put me in the mindset and the position that I am now.

[00:09:34]Now I [music] feel like, you know, with Kiana being gone, that made me stronger.

[00:09:40]You know, I had to. I couldn't fall. You know, I can't be depressed cuz I got kids to raise. Like, my kids don't have time they need me now. You know, their dad is gone.

[00:10:03]And I got to show my daughters what a strong black woman look like. So, if you ever in the position that I'm in, you know how to handle it. My [music] kids going to know how to handle anything that come their way.

[00:10:15]I'm very proud of myself. If you'd have asked me this a year ago, I would have said But right now, like now, I'm very, very, very proud of myself.

[00:10:25]Very proud of myself.

[00:10:28]>> Good morning.

[00:10:46]>> Oh, oh yeah, he mad. There he go.

[00:11:23]>> [music] >> Yo, weren't your ass supposed to be on the bus?

[00:11:32]>> Hello, love. What the hell?

[00:11:34]You good?

[00:11:35]>> okay.

[00:11:38]Okay. Well, I need I'm going to need I'm going to need clothes for the halfway house.

[00:11:44]And where?

[00:11:48]I did 10 10 months and 7 days on a 30-month sentence. [music] I'm doing 7 months in the halfway house.

[00:11:55]When you when you incarcerated, you really have to lock in to where you are.

[00:11:59]I have a a steep hill to climb, you know what I mean, on my road to redemption.

[00:12:13]It wasn't justifiable. It was greed.

[00:12:16]I don't blame anybody who introduced me to it or anything like that. I assume my responsibility, you know, in the whole act.

[00:12:26]>> He He stood up in the paint. He didn't tell on anybody.

[00:12:31]That's the realest in the NBA.

[00:12:33]I'mma say it. I'mma say it. Keyon Dooling is the realest in NBA for that.

[00:12:39]I would hate [music] to see another wife go through what I I would not want to wish this on my worst enemy.

[00:12:47]I I can take this cuz I was built for it. You know what I'm saying? The Lord prepared me [music] for this. He put me and Keyon together for a reason.

[00:12:54]>> It feels a lot more free to be, you know, kind of transparent and honest about where I am, what I have done, and it puts accountability out there. It also puts the acceptance of wearing the mistake. I ain't I ain't running from it. I ain't scared of it. It is what [music] it is.

[00:13:15]I did my time. I literally had to go and do time.

[00:13:22]I know that this is just a chapter in my life.

[00:13:25]>> [music] >> It's not the end-all be-all, but it's a very real thing.

[00:13:31]>> I am me. I'm flawed. I'm layered, and I'm trying to get it right.