Bobby Portis gained’t be qualified to return with the Bucks until finally April 8. (Picture by Stacy Revere/Getty Photos)
Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis was suspended 25 video games without the need of buy violating the NBA’s anti-drug plan, the league announced Thursday. He tested constructive for Tramadol.
Portis’ agent, Mark Bartelstein, unveiled an announcement saying the violation was essentially a mixture-up. Bartelstein reported Portis assumed he was getting a soreness medication named Toradol, that's permitted, but as a substitute took Tramadol, which is not. The statement said Portis was given the incorrect medication by an assistant of his, and it had been “an sincere oversight.”
“Bobby Portis is absolutely not a drug abuser,” Bartelstein wrote. “Bobby is effective tirelessly on rising hisperformance in all all-natural, authorized and balanced techniques, but he built a error and took a pill that unknowingly he shouldn't have. Currently, Within this instance, I'm so deeply upset which the NBA chooses to interpret its plan so strictly, and the coverage isn't going to allow for for another final result for an honest error with pure intentions.”
In a press release produced because of the Bucks, Portis claimed, “I sense horrible and recognize that I’m answerable for what I put in my system. From the bottom of my heart, I want to apologize into the Bucks Firm, my teammates, coaches, family members and admirers. I give anything I've around the courtroom and can terribly pass up enjoying online games with the Bucks for the duration of this time.”
Bucks typical supervisor Jon Horst said that although “it is a very hard set of situations for Bobby and our crew … we 100% help Bobby.”
The twenty five-game suspension would make Portis ineligible to return until finally the Bucks’ April eight dwelling activity versus the Minnesota Timberwolves. Together with that video game, the Bucks might have just 4 common-period game titles remaining. Milwaukee now sits in fifth position while in the Jap Convention, one activity back with the Indiana Pacers.
Portis has performed in 46 video games with the Bucks this season, averaging 25.2 minutes, 13.7 factors and 8.3 rebounds for each activity.