Milwaukee Busjes forward Bobby Portis has been suspended for 25 games for violating the league’s anti-drug policy, according to a report from ESPN’s Shams Charania. The Bucks are currently in fifth place in the Eastern Conference and gearing up for a postseason push, but they will be without Portis until the very end of the regular season as there are just 28 games remaining on the schedule.
“Just In: The NBA has suspended Milwaukee Bucks’ Bobby Portis for 25 games for violating the league’s anti-drug policy, sources tell ESPN,” Shams Charania said in a post.
“I am devastated for Bobby right now because he made an honest mistake and the ramifications of it are incredibly significant,” Bobby Portis’ agent Mark Bartelstein said. “Bobby unintentionally took a pain medication called Tramadol, thinking he was taking a pain medication called Toradol. Toradol is an approved pain medication that he has used previously and that teams and players use for pain and inflammation at times. Tramadol, however, is not an approved pain medication and was just recently added to the banned substance list this past spring. The Tramadol pill he took came from an assistant of his, with a valid prescription for the painkiller, which he mistakenly told Bobby was Toradol. This was, again, an honest mistake that was made because of the similarity in the names of the drugs and the fact they both serve a very similar purpose.”
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