Former Brooklyn hoops star Sebastian Telfair is calling on President Donald Trump to give him a last-second pardon before he has to report to prison on Tuesday to serve out a six-month sentence.
Telfair, who starred for Abraham Lincoln High School in Coney Island and bounced around the NBA, allegedly failed to satisfy the terms of a plea bargain related to a healthcare fraud case he was wrapped up in, and decided to make a last-ditch plea to Trump during an interview with TMZ. 4
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“Trump, go check in on my story and you’re definitely going to want to pardon me,” he said during the interview on the streets of New York. “You’ll hold me accountable and want me to continue to go do good. But I did too good to being sending anybody to jail.”
Telfair called the situation “super unfai