Bobby Portis received’t be suitable to return for the Bucks until April 8. (Picture by Stacy Revere/Getty Illustrations or photos)
Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis was suspended twenty five game titles with out buy violating the NBA’s anti-drug application, the league introduced Thursday. He analyzed positive for Tramadol.
Portis’ agent, Mark Bartelstein, released an announcement professing the violation was in essence a mixture-up. Bartelstein mentioned Portis imagined he was getting a pain medication called Toradol, which is accepted, but instead took Tramadol, which is not. The statement reported Portis was supplied the incorrect medication by an assistant of his, and it was “an truthful blunder.”
“Bobby Portis is absolutely not a drug abuser,” Bartelstein wrote. “Bobby will work tirelessly on growing hisperformance in all pure, authorized and balanced means, but he produced a blunder and took a tablet that unknowingly he shouldn't have. Right now, In this particular occasion, I'm so deeply let down that the NBA chooses to interpret its coverage so strictly, and which the policy isn't going to make it possible for for a distinct final result for an trustworthy error with pure intentions.”
In an announcement produced with the Bucks, Portis reported, “I feel horrible and acknowledge which i’m liable for what I set in my body. From the bottom of my heart, I need to apologize towards the Bucks Corporation, my teammates, coaches, family and lovers. I give all the things I've on the court and may terribly miss taking part in games to the Bucks during this time.”
Bucks common manager Jon Horst explained that when “it is a quite challenging set of circumstances for Bobby and our staff … we 100% aid Bobby.”
The twenty five-match suspension would make Portis ineligible to return right up until the Bucks’ April 8 dwelling recreation versus the Minnesota Timberwolves. Like that activity, the Bucks would've just four typical-period video games remaining. Milwaukee at the moment sits in fifth put within the Jap Conference, one game back again in the Indiana Pacers.
Portis has performed in forty six game titles for that Bucks this time, averaging twenty five.two minutes, 13.7 points and 8.three rebounds for every recreation.