Keyon Dooling arrested in relation to former players fraud case

A former vice president of the National Basketball Players Association was arrested Wednesday and added to a 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 rewritten indictment added Keyon Dooling 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.

NBPA executive Tamika Tremaglio director supporting NBA expansion

Tamika Tremaglio, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, said she is in favor of the NBA expanding beyond the league’s current 30 teams. Her comments came Tuesday during SportTechie’s State Of The Industry conference at One World Trade Center in New York City. “We do want more teams, I think it’s good for the business,’’ Tremaglio said during her opening keynote conversation with SBJ executive editor Abraham Madkour. “Ideally, we hope that there will be more teams popping up in the U.S.’’

She also acknowledged some “privacy …

She also acknowledged some “privacy concerns” regarding player-tracking data collected through wearable devices or the league’s Second Spectrum optical camera system. “It’s something that is used so that [players] can hone in on their skills, recognize when they are exhausted and when they can do things better,” Tremaglio said. But there are still some privacy concerns. We have to look at what that will mean going forward. It is certainly something that we are exploring.”