OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: FEBRUARY 2025 (2 Viewers)

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wizenheimer said:
wow....pretty serious penalty. With his salary, that amounts to a 3.9M fine

I wonder if it was 'recreational substances' of performance enhancing drugs
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Neither. Sounds like an honest mistake. Toradol resurfacing draws a chuckle from me.

His agent:

 
illmatic99 said:
Neither. Sounds like an honest mistake. Toradol resurfacing draws a chuckle from me.

His agent:

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tbh, when I read Tramadol, I didn't realize it was different than Toradol.

It is pretty crazy that a pain-killer would lead to a 25-game suspension. Feels ridiculously excessive to me.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
tbh, when I read Tramadol, I didn't realize it was different than Toradol.

It is pretty crazy that a pain-killer would lead to a 25-game suspension. Feels ridiculously excessive to me.
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When your job is your body you better be 100% certain of what you're putting in your body. We've seen the "oops, I didn't know" excuse used far too many times in these situations.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
When your job is your body you better be 100% certain of what you're putting in your body. We've seen the "oops, I didn't know" excuse used far too many times in these situations.
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No doubt. My main point was that even if he knew what he was taking, even if it were intentional, I can't see how 1/3 of a season is a proportionate punishment. Even if he were popping Vicodin like Brett Favre, this wouldn't be reasonable.
 
I find it hard to believe he took the wrong pill by "accident".
 
PtldPlatypus said:
It is pretty crazy that a pain-killer would lead to a 25-game suspension. Feels ridiculously excessive to me.
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Which should tell you there's a whole lot more to the story, and certainly more to it than an agent's PR spin job. FWIW, Tramadol is thought to have performance enhancing benefits.

It's not exactly a novel approach to say someone else accidentally gave me the wrong thing.
 
Just watched the Spurs vs Nuggets game from a few weeks ago….. I tell you what. This dude is something else….. WHY DIDN’T WE DRAFT HIM!!??
 
Actually the best part of watching the Spurs games…..seeing the reaction of the opposing team’s bench players after Vic does something bananas. Unwritten rule for the NBA is to not react when a player from the other team does something simply amazing against one of your teammates….. it’s hilarious watching the other team try NOT to react to one of his plays.
 
Looks like I have no reason to record any more Spurs games.
 
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meh they are shutting him down to get a pick. They can easily overtake POR in the lotto and actually have a chance to snag Flagg. Stranger things have happened. Flagg to the Spurs.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
tbh, when I read Tramadol, I didn't realize it was different than Toradol.

It is pretty crazy that a pain-killer would lead to a 25-game suspension. Feels ridiculously excessive to me.
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Don't be ridiculous. Accidentally taking the wrong drug is obviously 12.5 times as bad as intentionally stomping on someone....
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Yeah, feels very cavalier for people to just presume that this is an invented condition for draft positioning. A 21-year-old with DVT feels like a pretty big deal.
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It's really unfortunate timing, if true. Post-All Star break is widely considered serious tanking time, and here we are about to play the first [regularly scheduled] game after the break. It makes you (me) wonder how closely the league looks into the truthfulness of medical claims.
 
handiman said:
It's really unfortunate timing, if true. Post-All Star break is widely considered serious tanking time, and here we are about to play the first [regularly scheduled] game after the break. It makes you (me) wonder how closely the league looks into the truthfulness of medical claims.
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That's really the question here. Do they look, and do they even have the right to?
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Yeah, feels very cavalier for people to just presume that this is an invented condition for draft positioning. A 21-year-old with DVT feels like a pretty big deal.
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it can be a very big deal because it can be a chronic condition. IIRC, the concern is even higher for athletes because DVT is usually caused by inactivity. If Wemby is creating clots at the same time he's playing basketball it might be difficult to control and an indicator of high risk

this can not only life-threatening, it might potentially be career-ending. Those are extreme outcomes at this point, but the potenetial shouldn't be minimized or discounted

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5753956/
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Yeah, feels very cavalier for people to just presume that this is an invented condition for draft positioning. A 21-year-old with DVT feels like a pretty big deal.
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was no dis on potential seriousness
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A team source told ESPN that the Spurs are optimistic that Wembanyama will make a full recovery by the beginning of the 2025-26 season.
 
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