Let me have my chance to stereotype him, I'm guessing he's an LSD and shroom guy.
The funny thing is that when I was watching the game the other night, they showed a closeup of him and I instantly thought steroids. I know steroids are not very advantageous for basketball, and I'm not saying he was using them, but his neck and face was swole, much different from last year. A family friend was ill a while back, and had that same unnatural swollen look, which was caused by receiving steroid injections as treatment, so that's the only reason I thought that.
This is from the Hornets website:
Statement Regarding Chris Andersen
All aspects of the NBA’s Anti-Drug Program are kept confidential as part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. However, we can say that we were obviously disappointed and saddened to hear that Chris has been dismissed from the league. On behalf of his teammates, coaches and the entire organization, we wish him well and hope he learns from this experience.
- Hornets Owner George Shinn
I'll have to check, but I'm pretty sure his contract is now void and doesn't count against the cap for the Hornets.
Pretty ty year for Andersen. First he gets fat over the summer on the Hedough Turkoglu diet, loses his house and Hummer when Katrina hit, now this.
Getting pretty late in the season for Europe, but someone may pick him up. Might be a better idea for him to just get his together first and start again next fall.
Looks liike the steroid angle is a possiblity, but he'd have to test positive four times to be kicked out. I don't even think Birdman is capable of that kind of uberstupidity.
I thought there was some type of pe ion he could do in 2 years to try to get back in? Or maybe I read that wrong
You are right.
I guess if it was steroids he would've been suspended for previous violaitons. Must've been some of the hard stuff.
I think she's questioning the fact that any team would want him. I don't think that this is something big enough for teams to shy away from him if he is ever reinstated. I'm probably wrong, but I would think that there is some kind of provision that if he plans to come back, he will have drug tests at random during the time he's out, and that would ease teams minds.
I question whether he can stop playing for a couple of years, and return healthy, fit, and able to compete at the same level, or even close to what he was before.
I have him on my Dynasty Team. I will have to put him on I
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Actually, I think it falls under "performance enhancing" and "other". After watching the game tapes, they deduced that whatever he's taking must not be performance enhancing.
I have alot of questions about this story.
I'm not arguing he was doing 'roids, I'm pretty sure it was Cocaine or LSD, but I am not clear on something. I doubt that the use of steroids is 0% in the NBA, but have we ever heard of anyone getting suspended for a dirty steroid test? Usually it is weed, but even at that, most of the time suspensions don't stem from dirty tests, they get busted with it in their personal lives, and get suspended when convicted. Were roid tests part of the old CBA? If so, was there a suspension for it? Was it just testing for a couple of types?
Also, how many years has birdman been in the league, this is his second year, right? He has not had to much time to fail multiple tests. So, it's either the hard stuff, or he's a fiend. He has also been an upstanding citizen and player hasn't he? Since the "NBA Cares" so much, did they try to help him out, give him chances already, and when he was caught again did they get so fed up with him, they let him loose? There is more to this. Maybe he was getting sloppy and making it obvious.
I don't really keep informed on this kind of stuff, because normally if it does not involve the spurs, I really don't care.
Last edited by Despot; 01-28-2006 at 06:01 PM.
Last guy I remembered getting the boot for roids is Soumaila Samake in 02-03.
Say no to drugs!
He should of known better...
This explains some questions regarding the contract, etc.
Chris Sheridan
ESPN Insider
By the time Chris Andersen is eligible to return to the NBA, his arms should be as colorful as those alternate road uniforms he used to wear for the Hornets.
There's a fascinating human interest story behind the first player banned from the league for a major drug policy violation since Stanley Roberts in 1999.
Andersen is the son of a second-generation Motor Maid, a woman who grew up on Harley-Davidson motorcycles. His mother, Linda, could probably tell you where Sturgis is before she could tell you who Stockton was. She brought young Chris along when she went for her first orchid tattoo, later adding hummingbirds and butterflies, and Andersen returned the favor the first time he had ink injected under his skin.
But Andersen spent 3˝ of his formative years without his mother. His father, an artist, put him and his sister, Tamie, into a group home when he was 11. It was either that or a military school, because dad was heading off to New York to try to sell his paintings.
Linda regained custody after initially being unable to find them and brought them back to rural east Texas, where she would pick 14-year-old Chris up from school on her chopper. Andersen's mom took her Harleys seriously, mind you, because it ran in the family. She says her mother (Andersen's grandmother) was riding the back of a Harley when pregnant with her.
Andersen eventually became one of 34 members of the Class of '97 at Iola High School, and after a year and a half of community college, he ditched his letter of commitment to Clyde Drexler's University of Houston Cougars and decided to go for the money by playing professionally in China, where he faced Yao Ming before hardly anyone in America had heard of him.
Andersen eventually played minor league ball in North Dakota and New Mexico before the Nuggets saw him in a summer league tryout. Known as "The Birdman," he was a hit with the free-spirited home fans in Denver and later New Orleans and Oklahoma City, and gained some national fame (or shame), by missing his first seven attempts at the dunk contest in Denver last year. (A year earlier, he ed his hair for the dunk contest in L.A.)
Andersen apparently failed a drug test last week, testing positive for one of the so-called "drugs of abuse" (including heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, LSD and PCP) that bring an automatic two-year banishment.
No one has said exactly which substance Andersen tested positive for, but the players' union has filed a grievance on his behalf. Citing strict confidentiality rules that have cost high-ranking people their jobs when breached in the past, the union has not even disclosed the grounds for Andersen's appeal.
Under league rules, the four-year, $14 million contract Andersen signed over the summer is now null and void. If his dismissal is upheld and he misses two seasons, the Hornets will have first dibs on Andersen should he be reinstated. If they were to want to bring him back, they'd have to tender him a contract at his old salary of $3.5 million.
Not to be trite, but it really is a shame that Andersen just threw away more than $12 million. He seemed like a good guy every time I spoke to him. We once discussed the specifics of his tattoos, how one arm was tattooed with the Chinese symbols for good, the other with the symbols for bad. He also had the outlines of a few new tattoos on his arms and shoulders, explaining that it was an ongoing process to have all of the colors filled in. He expected it to take years, but I guess he'll have the extra time for it now.
Free-spirits of Oklahoma City?
You want to feel bad for him.
But he made an absolutely stupid choice.
What a total idiot. I have no sympathy for him what so ever.
wow he messed up
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it was cocaine.
"Birdman" = Street talk for one in the business of selling da 8 balls
8 Ball = 3.5 grams of cocaine
Cocaine = 2 year suspension
Chris Andersen = Birdman
Do they varify these UA tests? I know at my clinic when we do random UAs every month there's always a few that have to be retested because the lab screws up or results come back all screwy.
That is EXACTLY what I thought!! We should have known back then!!! hahaha
Wonder what he's gonna do with all this new freetime??
i not even a fan of this guy so i really don't care, but if one of my favorite players was only good because of steroids, then i would lose all respect for them. what an idiot.
They better, unless they want to face a major lawsuit.
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