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People forget that many Spurs players were into coke in a big way back in the cocaine heyday. It may have ended the careers of several players prematurely or at least ruined their last years.
You are suspended for 10 games for performance enhancers for the first failed test and put in a program. 25 games for the 2nd time. 1 year for the 3rd time and dismissed from the league for the 4th time.
Drugs like cocaine and heroin are automatic dismissal for a variety of reasons, but a big one being because of how rampant a problem there was with cocaine in the NBA back in the day.
People forget that many Spurs players were into coke in a big way back in the cocaine heyday. It may have ended the careers of several players prematurely or at least ruined their last years.
i prefer to see if we can sign foster/mihm since there contracts are nearly up, better than the crap frontcourt we just acquisition during the summer of 06
Fair enough, I guess, but why the ever so gradual scale for performance enhancers? It should be 25 games first time, out the second.
Notice that pot is not mentioned in the "drugs of abuse". If they turfed every NBA player who smoked a bit of weed they'd have no league...
Notice that pot is not mentioned in the "drugs of abuse". If they turfed every NBA player who smoked a bit of weed they'd have no league...
There's marijuana testing and a program for that too. I just didn't list the ramifications for that. They address 3 separate things: Marijuana, SPED, and Drugs of Abuse.
how come the nba has more problems than soccer in general??
THUG LIFE?
Like I said before, I think the gradual penalties for performance enhancing drugs is there because the league has never really had to face wide-spread use of those sorts of drugs by players. It's in the agreement to provide a deterrent, but the reality is that there's never been a significant SPED problem, so there's little need to aggressively punish.
The inclusion of marijuana testing for NBA players was a major source of contention between the players and owners in one of the recent collective bargaining agreements. Separate treatment of marijuana is undoubtedly a byproduct of a compromise -- players can be tested, but they can't be punished for use in the same way that they could be punished for using cocaine. I'm sure the owners would love to change that, but the players seem extremely unlikely to budge on that one.Notice that pot is not mentioned in the "drugs of abuse". If they turfed every NBA player who smoked a bit of weed they'd have no league...
I'd love to have either, specilly Foster but it will boil down to affordability.. we could get the birdman for cheap IMO so its minimal risk with possibly a big payoff if things work out
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