Gist fails doping test

[Pero]

http://www.siol.net/sportal/kosarka/...ing_testu.aspx
Article is in Slovene, says that they found traces of carboxy THC. Article also says he could get suspended for two years, but most likely will get just a warning.

[FalleNxWiZarDx]

what happen to all the guys who where sucking GIST's huh?

[joshdaboss]

How long before James Gist Jr.(Leonard) fails it?

[benefactor]

Meh. More than half the players in NBA are smoking weed. It shouldn't even be illegal anyway.

[Bruno]

It's just stupid to smoke pot when you're a professional athlete who is regularly tested.

[GSH]

Meh. More than half the players in NBA are smoking weed. It shouldn't even be illegal anyway.

He didn't get arrested, did he? So why are you ing about "illegal"? Lots of sports have rules against using over the counter medications. Those are all legal.

It's the rules of the damn league. If you want to play, follow them. It's not that hard to figure out. There are plenty of car washes he can work at, if he's that dissatisfied with basketball and its rules. Pretty much every responsible job in the world has some kind of rules that employees have to follow. Breaking the rules and then whining about how they shouldn't be rules to begin with? That's just stupid. Even grade school kids figure out they have to wear the uniform or get sent home.

[Bill_Brasky]

Smoke pot, win Olympic gold medals.

[Leetonidas]

Smoke pot, set the record for Olympic gold medals.

fify

[Vic Petro]

He didn't get arrested, did he? So why are you ing about "illegal"? Lots of sports have rules against using over the counter medications. Those are all legal.

It's the rules of the damn league. If you want to play, follow them. It's not that hard to figure out. There are plenty of car washes he can work at, if he's that dissatisfied with basketball and its rules. Pretty much every responsible job in the world has some kind of rules that employees have to follow. Breaking the rules and then whining about how they shouldn't be rules to begin with? That's just stupid. Even grade school kids figure out they have to wear the uniform or get sent home.

You get what you deserve under the letter of the law. Doesn't mean the letter of the law isn't flawed, though.

[GSH]

You get what you deserve under the letter of the law. Doesn't mean the letter of the law isn't flawed, though.

Did you read the part where he probably gets a warning, instead of a suspension? Does that sound like blind, letter of the law justice to you? And you don't seem to get that he's not in trouble for breaking any law. He broke a rule that his employer set as a condition for employment. The point is, he's a big boy, making a of a lot of money. He knows the rules. He has the option of doing something else with his life, if he doesn't like the rules. But breaking the rules is just stupid, if you like your job.

IBM used to have a rule that all of their male employees had to wear white shirts, blue pinstriped suits, and a tie. But they paid very well, and they had never had a layoff. Employees always had the choice of deciding that the rules were stupid, and showing up in a gray suit, or colored shirt, or without a tie. yeah! Fight the system! Damn the man! Of course, doing that would have been stupid. If you were lucky, you got sent home with a serious warning. (And the knowledge that you had just committed a career limiting move.)

Was it a stupid rule? Maybe. But most people were so happy with the money, status, and incredible job security that they just considered it a small price to pay.

Ricky Williams left the NFL finally, so he could go smoke pot as much as he wanted to. And I respected him for that. It was important to him, and he went for it. But when the money started running out, he came back to the Dolphins and promised to follow the rules this time. And I respected him for that, too. I've got no respect for someone who knows the rules before he gets hired, and then es because a rule isn't fair. I haven't heard Gist doing that - just other people doing it for him.

[Vic Petro]

Did you read the part where he probably gets a warning, instead of a suspension? Does that sound like blind, letter of the law justice to you? And you don't seem to get that he's not in trouble for breaking any law. He broke a rule that his employer set as a condition for employment. The point is, he's a big boy, making a of a lot of money. He knows the rules. He has the option of doing something else with his life, if he doesn't like the rules. But breaking the rules is just stupid, if you like your job.

IBM used to have a rule that all of their male employees had to wear white shirts, blue pinstriped suits, and a tie. But they paid very well, and they had never had a layoff. Employees always had the choice of deciding that the rules were stupid, and showing up in a gray suit, or colored shirt, or without a tie. yeah! Fight the system! Damn the man! Of course, doing that would have been stupid. If you were lucky, you got sent home with a serious warning. (And the knowledge that you had just committed a career limiting move.)

Was it a stupid rule? Maybe. But most people were so happy with the money, status, and incredible job security that they just considered it a small price to pay.

Ricky Williams left the NFL finally, so he could go smoke pot as much as he wanted to. And I respected him for that. It was important to him, and he went for it. But when the money started running out, he came back to the Dolphins and promised to follow the rules this time. And I respected him for that, too. I've got no respect for someone who knows the rules before he gets hired, and then es because a rule isn't fair. I haven't heard Gist doing that - just other people doing it for him.

Dude, I am agreeing with you. You are taking the word "law" too literally. I meant the word only in the sense that the IBM white shirt rule is an "IBM law". Don't smoke pot is a "league law". That's all I meant...not exactly articulate on my part I admit.

Imo smoking pot should be treated the same as drinking among athletes. If you show up to work drunk or high you deserve reprimand, but having traces of it in your system shouldn't be a big deal. But the rules are the rules.

[benefactor]

Dude, I am agreeing with you. You are taking the word "law" too literally. I meant the word only in the sense that the IBM white shirt rule is an "IBM law". Don't smoke pot is a "league law". That's all I meant...not exactly articulate on my part I admit.

Imo smoking pot should be treated the same as drinking among athletes. If you show up to work drunk or high you deserve reprimand, but having traces of it in your system shouldn't be a big deal. But the rules are the rules.

This is where I was going with it too. I would probably smoke weed if I didn't fear losing my job. Is he dumb for doing something that could cost him his job? Sure. I was more inferring that it doesn't matter to me that he smokes weed.

[YODA]

correct me if im wrong, but arnt NBA players NOT tested for weed?

[GSH]

This is where I was going with it too. I would probably smoke weed if I didn't fear losing my job. Is he dumb for doing something that could cost him his job? Sure. I was more inferring that it doesn't matter to me that he smokes weed.

Oh, ... if that's what you mean. I don't care what James Gist does. I'd be a little worried about him being too stupid to be on the team. Or doing something stupid to get himself suspended, which would hurt the team. But in the grand scheme of things, screwing the wife of a teammate seems a little more egregious to me. (3 billion women in the world, and you're supposed to be one of the sexiest men alive, and you have to pick the wife of a teammate? Seriously?) People didn't write off Parker over that.


Heh... but get rid of the rule against pot, and you'd have guys ordering pizzas during time-outs. You know it's true.

[Vic Petro]

Heh... but get rid of the rule against pot, and you'd have guys ordering pizzas during time-outs. You know it's true.

FACT