losetowin wrote:If you think PED use in the NBA isn't rampant you are hopelesssly naive.
If you could take a pill and earn fame and fortune for almost zero risk, would you?
David Stern doesn't want a tough testing program because he knows what would result.
Your summary of drugs just being a magic pill which makes you better really signals you have no informitive opinion of the subject.
Basketball relies on muscle memory and skill much more then Rugby/Cycling rely on strength/endurance, Guys like OJ Mayo who took Dhea are (Please Use More Appropriate Word) because the stuff is rife within a lot of anti-biotics and really effects adrenelin/memory for middle age men/females rather then something to juice up on. It also is pretty good to skim down on fat and is an off the shelf purchase. Im betting Mayo just wanted to get into shape and smash the fat folds rather then be able to bench 300 pounds.
It's more a testiment to Mayo/Lewis that they are idiots and really should seek a team doctor before what they should be taking rather then seeing something with DHEA in it and thinking "yeah this will give me more energy and help me reduce fat!
If NBA players were blood doping like Lance it would just be incase a game gets into the 7th OT and they dont want to start feeling the effects.
Plus it's debatable whether HGH is a Preformance enhancing product in Males. Using it for injuries im completely fine with
Some of you guys are idiots. You think "steroids make you giant like arnold" Anabolic Steoids would make you less functional in Basketball, I cant see much basketballers immediatly gaining 10-15 kilos in muscle and still being as explosive.
Shem wrote:Dwight and LeBron would be my first suspects if I was going after players using PED's. And one thing PED's can do is give the person using it back problems. That's the first thing that came up was a conversation I had with my two brothers a few years ago after Dwight hurt his back as a reminder to what we discussed between a year or two before Dwight had to have off season back surgery.
No...it really doesn't, Dwight had a herniated Disc which is something which slides out and pushes against nerves, it's a lifelong thing which he will have for the rest of his life. It's caused by lifting weights incorrectly. Mostly squats.
D.Brasco wrote:LOL at people posting pictures of buff players and assuming they are the one who must be doping.
He was caught out blood doping, which generally is swapping out blood for blood which has been put in a machine and made to carry more oxygen in the blood. Playing sport for 50 minutes or running less then 10km a game which is practically useless and a waste of time
Before i get told im ignorant, I still believe there are probably a few, No sporting league would be 100% clean, I however dismiss people saying "Yeah Look at Lebron, its not like he goes to the Gym every second day and is fanatical about his recovery/training, You have to be that intense to be where he is, I feel it's just slander against guys we love playing if your that quick to jump and say :yeah he's 260 pounds and explosive as hell and skillful, He must use Steroids Dur Dur" without knowing what you are saying or having a clue what you are talking about ot what the effects of a lot of "Steroids" are.
And FYI steroids don't make your muscles bigger, It's all in the user. It simply helps muscle recovery. You all would have taken steriods, for a cold, Broken Bones ect. ect. If it saves Derrick Rose 4 months from his knee OP getting all the muslces back to 100% and takes out a loss of that recovery from month 5-8 then go for it.