The NBA announced on Thursday that Portis violating the league’s anti-drug program after testing positive for Tramadol.
Mark Bartelstein, Portis’ agent, issued a statement to ESPN’s Shams Charania explaining his client “unintentionally” took Tramadol, mistakenly thinking it was Toradol.
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The Bucks chose not to appeal the suspension. Rivers told reporters that the risk of the appeal being unsuccessful and the suspension then ending later in the season was too great of a risk, even if the team disagreed with the severity of the punishment.
The current timeline has him back with a handful of regular season games, delaying it could have had him out for playoffs.
RIP bucks season unless they’re able to appeal it and have him back for playoffs. Nevermind forgot there’s still 29 games left, still going to hurt since their front court is pretty thin so going to be hard to climb the standings.Seems like the agents story is believable so maybe the appeal will work too
Kuzma helps a lot with that situation