Steroids in the NBA

[QUOTE=adamcz;2943472]I'm not accusing any [i]specific[/i] players of using drugs - just want to make that clear.

But steroids have been a problem in pretty much every other sport. Why would basketball be the [i]only[/i] sport that doesn't suffer from steroids? Rumors swirled around baseball players such as Bonds for many years before everyone finally admitted that yes, he obviously was using steroids. Why did it take so long for everyone to admit that he never could have gotten that big without juicing?

The NBA's drug testing policy is known to be pretty lax. It just seems like the opportunity is there, and with certain players, the superman muscles are there as well. In baseball and boxing we found out later that in virtually every case these superman looking players were juicing. Will we one day find out the same about basketball players? Players in the 80's weight trained pretty seriously but none of them looked like the freakishly cut players of today.

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Players in the 80s did not weight train seriously at all. Only very few of them did (like D.Robinson, who was known for his stellar physique). A great many players in the 80s used to smoke cigarettes and drink beers at half time.

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I am fairly certain that most of them do use PED's to recover from injuries....at least. This would make sense to do given the amount of money involved. Outside of injuries, It is also likely that they keep themselves "topped up", meaning, that whatever the agreed upon max levels are, they and their trainers, make sure that they are always right up to the max allowable hormone levels.

In any case, I don't see evidence of anyone going nuts with this stuff. Maybe Dwight Howard back in his prime. But everyone else looks how you would expect very well trained professional athletes to look like.

Everyone knows David Robinson got the guns from praying to the Lord Jesus.

When Hakeem slapped him in The WCF he turned the other cheek.

Then he told Rodman too do the same and his soul would be saved.

Rodman said " Fu#k that, I'm a killer"

The rest is history.....

[QUOTE=light;14142398]Players in the 80s did not weight train seriously at all. Only very few of them did (like D.Robinson, who was known for his stellar physique). A great many players in the 80s used to smoke cigarettes and drink beers at half time.

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False except DROB.

Difficult to know but I doubt athletes smoked and drank at halftime.

Divac was a known smoker but your post distorts the reality- unless you provide proof

Will Lebron be banned from the hall :eek:

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This entire discussion is never gonna be easy to talk about. You can look at elite ballers pics of Lebron and yeah of course he got bigger the same way you can look at giannis pics and he exploded as well. But we’re looking at pictures years apart with the best athletic trainers, sports scientists, doctors etc. of course the players are gonna be more fit. Look at someone like jj reddick for example nobody’s gonna say he’s on roids right? Now compare his duke pictures to his pelicans pictures. Obviously he’s in much better shape and bigger now than he was back in college. These players have the best trainers, the best doctors, they have everything. If you don’t expect them to be in peak shape and look amazing idk what to tell you guys.

[QUOTE] It was before Atlanta went on their 20-game win streak, so it wasn't really deemed a big game yet. And they thought LeBron was going to play, and LeBron just decided, 'I'm not gonna play.' Like, at the last minute, he told them, 'I'm not playing.' Didn't even come out to the bench, just sat in the back, didn't come out."

Windhorst says the Cavaliers' brass was stunned.

"[James] had sort of just like waved a bit of a white flag there. He just didn't feel like playing. He had never done that ever before. He had always just played through it. And so it was after that game, [the Cavaliers] said, 'Alright, take your two weeks off,' because he had reached a very low point." [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]"[James] had sort of just like waved a bit of a white flag there. He just didn't feel like playing. He had never done that ever before. He had always just played through it. And so it was after that game, [the Cavaliers] said, 'Alright, take your two weeks off,' because he had reached a very low point."

Nobody is quite sure why James' two-week break turned around his season. He does seem healthier and more explosive. If it was just fatigue and simple aches that he was dealing with, then two weeks may have been enough to revitalize him.[/QUOTE]

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