NBL players fined over positive cannabis test

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The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority has fined and reprimanded two players for testing positive to cannabis during the last National Basketball League season.

 

Melbourne Tigers forward Rashad Tucker and former Perth player David Bailey tested positive to the banned drug during in-competition testing, and were fined $5,000 each.

 

Bailey is no longer registered in the NBL after being released from his contract with the Wildcats at the end of last season.

 

Basketball Australia said it supported the action taken against both players.

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ABX Sport

July 4, 2006

 

http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200607/s1678437.htm

[raverspec]

WTF? It's not a performance enhancing drug. In fact, I'd be crazy enough to say that you wouldn't really want to be smoking bongs before a national basketball game. Who fucking cares what they're doing in their personal time - it's no one's business as long as it doesn't interfere with their game.

[Stoney]

i completly agree if its performance inhancing the throw the book at em but hey there aint nothing like a fat one to burn down after a hard game i always enjoy a nice doobie when i get home from the gym relaxes the muscles

 

what they do in there own time is there own business who cares would love to know how many days befor the test did they smoke the erb

 

cheerz

[WantDaChronic]

what retards, i reckon they should give them extra points in a game if they show up stoned

[pipeman]

a doobie after the workout? try a doobie before the workout.

 

I lift weights 3 times a week and either go for a bike ride, swim or run another 3 times, and all of it stoned off my tits. mj has made me love excercising and I'm now in the best shape of my life. Incidently I was in the worst shape of my life just before I became a stoner. go figure.

[dsyfer]

a doobie after the workout? try a doobie before the workout.

 

I lift weights 3 times a week and either go for a bike ride, swim or run another 3 times, and all of it stoned off my tits. mj has made me love excercising and I'm now in the best shape of my life. Incidently I was in the worst shape of my life just before I became a stoner. go figure.

Nothing like a cone b4 lifting some weights, I can almost double the reps compared to straight,

Whilst not directly affecting muscles, I believe it just shuts off mental limits set by yourself, it just

shows what the body can do if the mind will let it,

 

performance enhancing? just get both teams stoned to make it fair I say

[Budman2012]

Hmmm ... Gettin Stoned and exercising eh ? ...

Thats something I haven't seen too much of ...

Besides Goin for a ride , or a walk , or a skate (Not anymore tho) , I don't really set out to exercise purposefully...

Although If I was , yea I guess I would do it stoned (Like everything else

 

As For those basket ball players , I thought you were meant to be stoned when you play basketball ??? heh , Go Figure.

 

Btw , If I went to the gym stoned , I'd probly jus Ride those windy Bikes that go nowhere for a while , then when It was closing time , I'd go to BurgerKing. Then to the pub to get wasted hehehe

 

Anyhowz ... Budman ... Out. (Jogging in tiny shorts)

[Charlie6t9]

That's pretty fucked. They should be allowed to as long as yeah its not an enhancement drug. And if it's deperforming them in games, that's alright i suppose. But if there still normal players etc, it should be alright. It's just like them saying, nah you can't fuck that chick in ur own time or sumthing.

[Dave The Nefarious]

It's not so much a case of cannabis not being performance-enhancing, it's more about the fact that it's illegal and pro sports players are role models (whether they like it or not) for kids. If the NBL didn't fine/reprimand them then it'd be sending out a soft message to the kids not to mention the players as well