Former NBA champion Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis has hit back at criticism from followers after revealing he used to make porn films in a raunchy Instagram post on Monday night.

The 38-year-old won the NBA title with the Boston Celtics in 2008 but last played professional basketball with NBL Canada team St John’s Edge in 2019.

It’s thought Davis, who led Louisiana State to the 2006 NCAA championship game, earned around $32million during his career, which also saw him play for the Los Angeles Clippers and Orlando Magic.

He announced in 2016, while a free agent, that he was putting his basketball career ‘on hold’ to make a move into film production.

Well it now seems Davis was turning his hand to adult movies as he revealed he used to make porn films on Instagram.

Davis posted two pictures, one of him alongside two women in their underwear and another of a woman, also in her underwear, posing on a couch while Davis worked the camera.

He captioned it: ‘That one time I used to shoot pornos ! I really used to like that job!!’ with a number of laughing emojis.

While most of his fans appeared to make light of Davis’ second career, the post did not go down well with some followers.

‘Bro ur my kids favorite player, he follows you,’ wrote one.

Another commented: ‘Kobe or LeBron would never’.

‘I’m unfollowing you because of this post,’ added another.

Davis responded to the criticism, insisting he was ‘just watching and admiring and getting good shots’.

He responded on Instagram: ‘Listen, everybody got so mad about my porn.

‘That was just an experience in my life and I just posted it. As basketball players, we’re kind of like low-key pornstars.

‘I just wanted to see, I didn’t f*** those girls. I was just watching and admiring and getting good shots.

‘I love film, I love production and I wanted to try it out so I have that experience. I know how to shoot porn. I’ve seen what vaginas look like. The inside of it. It’s crazy.’

Davis was arrested in 2018 and indicted on seven counts of drug possession and distribution after police found 126 grams of marijuana and $92,000 in cash in his hotel room in Aberdeen, Maryland. He agreed to pay a $15,000 fine to avoid jail time.

He was also charged with felony assault in April 2018 after an altercation outside a club in West Hollywood. Davis eventually pled no contest to felony battery after the incident outside Factory nightclub, which left the victim hospitalized with fractures in his face and ribs.

In November 2023, Davis and ex-Detroit Piston Will Bynum were convicted by a New York jury in a scheme that prosecutors say defrauded an insurance plan for NBA players and their families of more than $5m.

More than 20 people have been convicted in the case, many of them onetime NBA players who submitted fictitious dental and medical claims to the NBA Players’ Health and Benefit Welfare Plan.

Terrence Williams, a 2009 first-round draft pick of the New Jersey Nets, was sentenced in August to a decade in prison as a ringleader of the scheme.

Prosecutors said doctors and dentists working with the players created fraudulent invoices that were submitted to the supplemental insurance plan for reimbursement.

In an interview with TMZ in November 2016, Davis said: ‘Right now I am going to put basketball on hold.

‘I have some opportunities with some movies and things like that. Directing and doing some stuff, executive producing and some stuff.

‘I got a Pistol Pete movie coming out soon.’

It remains unclear what Pete Maravich movie Davis was referring to as no projects about the NBA Hall of Famer have been released in recent years.