A man convicted of defrauding both former NBA All-Star Dwight Howard and Howard’s former Houston Rockets teammate, Chandler Parsons, should be sentenced to 11.25-14 years in prison, federal prosecutors argued this week in the Southern District of New York.

U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick will sentence Calvin Darden Jr. on Jan. 27. A jury convicted Darden of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy last October.

The trial followed a multiyear ruse in which Darden tricked Howard into thinking he was buying the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream franchise. Howard later learned through an ESPN news report regarding the sale of the Dream that he had been duped. Parsons, meanwhile, was misled into believing he was loaning money to a future NBA lottery pick.