Who do you think is taking steroids – not named skinny Durant?
Although the NBA is the only league (out of state side’s major three) yet to have a major scandal at the moment revolving around performance enhancement drugs, former head coach George Karl is bringing some unwarranted attention to Adam Silver’s most prized possession.
In another passage from his Furious George book, Karl went to say he believes the league has an issue with PEDs in the NBA and its players not receiving punishment for using illegal substances.
While the league has introduced blood testing for HGH just last year, we haven’t seen any suspensions made public for athletes knowingly taking steroids. With a lack of punishment from the league, he’s assuming to save face, take a look at the next batch of comments from Curious George.
On Steroids in the NBA.
We’ve got a more thorough drug-testing program than the NFL or MLB, which we always brag about. But we’ve still got a drug issue, though a different one than thirty years ago. And this one bothers me more than the dumbasses who got in trouble with recreational drugs.
I’m talking about performance-enhancing drugs—like steroids, human growth hormone, and so on. It’s obvious some of our players are doping. How are some guys getting older—yet thinner and fitter? How are they recovering from injuries so fast? Why the hell are they going to Germany in the off-season? I doubt it’s for the sauerkraut.
More likely it’s for the newest, hard-to-detect blood boosters and PEDs they have in Europe. Unfortunately, drug testing always seems to be a couple steps behind drug hiding. Lance Armstrong never failed a drug test. I think we want the best athletes to succeed, not the biggest, richest cheaters employing the best scientists. But I don’t know what to do about it.
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