Bobby Portis gained’t be suitable to return to the Bucks until finally April 8. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis was suspended twenty five game titles without the need of pay for violating the NBA’s anti-drug application, the league announced Thursday. He tested positive for Tramadol.
Portis’ agent, Mark Bartelstein, unveiled an announcement saying the violation was in essence a mix-up. Bartelstein stated Portis believed he was taking a agony medication called Toradol, which is authorized, but instead took Tramadol, which is not. The assertion stated Portis was specified the incorrect medication by an assistant of his, and it absolutely was “an trustworthy oversight.”
“Bobby Portis is completely not a drug abuser,” Bartelstein wrote. “Bobby will work tirelessly on growing hisperformance in all pure, authorized and healthier strategies, but he built a error and took a capsule that unknowingly he must not have. Now, in this occasion, I'm so deeply dissatisfied the NBA chooses to interpret its policy so strictly, and which the policy will not make it possible for for a different consequence for an truthful oversight with pure intentions.”
In a press release produced through the Bucks, Portis claimed, “I feel Terrible and identify which i’m chargeable for what I place in my entire body. From The underside of my coronary heart, I desire to apologize for the Bucks organization, my teammates, coaches, spouse and children and supporters. I give every little thing I have over the court and may terribly skip actively playing online games for that Bucks throughout this time.”
Bucks basic supervisor Jon Horst claimed that even though “that is a quite challenging list of conditions for Bobby and our group … we a hundred% guidance Bobby.”
The 25-match suspension would make Portis ineligible to return until finally the Bucks’ April 8 home recreation towards the Minnesota Timberwolves. Which includes that game, the Bucks might have just 4 normal-season games remaining. Milwaukee at this time sits in fifth location from the Japanese Conference, just one sport again of your Indiana Pacers.
Portis has played in 46 video games for your Bucks this time, averaging twenty five.two minutes, 13.seven points and 8.three rebounds for every video game.