The Utah Jazz were without assistant coach Keyon Dooling on Thursday night for Game 6 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, a 98-96 loss that sent the Jazz home for the summer. Dooling, a former player and former vice president of the National Basketball Players Association was arrested on Wednesday and charged with fraud. He was placed on administrative leave by the Jazz.
“Keyon made us aware of the situation this morning. It is a case concerning his time at the National Basketball Players Association, prior to him joining our organization,” the Jazz said in a statement. “He has been put on paid administrative leave. Due to the ongoing legal process, we will refrain from further comment.”
Dooling was added to an ongoing criminal case in which 18 former NBA players were charged with illegally pocketing millions of dollars by defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan.
The original indictment was filed last October where officials said former NBA players collected $2.5 million in funds from the benefit plan through illegal means.
Dooling is a former officer and vice president of the union. According to officials he “engaged in the scheme and recruited other co-conspirators to join the scheme.”
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