Steroids in the NBA? Rashard Lewis Tests Positive for a “testosterone-producing steroid” and is Suspended 10 Games
NBA, Steroids August 6th. 2009, 4:00pm
In what could only be described as shocking, Rashard Lewis of the Orlando Magic has tested positive for a “testosterone-producing steroid” and will be suspended for the first 10 games of next season.
According to league sources, Lewis was taking nutritional supplements at the end of last season that unknowing to him contained a substance commonly known as DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone) — a chemical compound made naturally in the body but also found in numerous over-the-counter supplements at nutritional stores. The substance is banned by most sports leagues, including the NBA.
Good thing this happened on a Thursday (and the Yankees-Red Sox series begins tonight). Otherwise, we’d have 4-5 days of fired-up talk radio about steroids in the NBA, and finger-pointing at guys like … well, you know. We don’t even need to mention them. Here’s a photo of Lewis with the Sonics. No discernable difference (not that muscle matters all that much; A-Rod’s been roughly the same size the last 10 years.) We couldn’t even tell you the last guy in the NBA to get busted for steroids. The last All-Star? No clue.
Here are a few other NBA players who have been suspended for steroid use.
Rashard Lewis tests positive for performance enhancing substance, will miss first 10 games (Orlando Sentinel)
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August 6th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
ouch
August 6th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
whatever. he didn’t need the juice to wax the cavs.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Test D-HO immediately.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
up next. lebron.
/book it
August 6th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
yet again.
eh.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
he totally isn’t getting into Cooperstown now.
/baseball writers’d
August 6th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Weird… most NBA players go au-natural with their performance enhancer: THC.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
10 games?
This is what Shaq misses when he gets a cold.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
up next. lebron.To NYC
/book it
/TBL
I’m sure his response was the same as mine: “Wait…they test for that in the NBA? I thought the only substance you were interested in was weed.”
August 6th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Call me old fashioned but I like my musicians on heroin and my athletes on steroids.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I’m pissed
August 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
damn it coop, you beat me to it.
That’s what I get for having a filler comment before.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
amen brother.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
So will this make him even more neurotic and annoying on Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Oh Rashard Lewis, nevermind
August 6th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
since Coop beat me to it:
I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals FA-LAMMMMMMMING!
August 6th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Well I think Kevin Durant and Steph Curry won’t be on that list anytime soon
August 6th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Ba dum dum
August 6th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
he won’t personally take a big hit for this compared to the hit the whole Magic team will take…could be the difference in home court advantage
August 6th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
You always do your gravatar justice… well done.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Man, check out the pecs on the running old man in the ad at the top of the page. Carved from steel.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
pretty weak sauce. MLB misses 1/3 of a season if you get busted once.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
MattRyan +8
Coop +2.34
Roeth +5
/Paolo’d
//I probably should havd put something in about the Mission.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Not that bad Irish. They should be fine for the first 10 games. Why so pissed?
August 6th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
This made me laugh uncontrollably.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
as long as they dont start testing for godliness gortat should be fine
August 6th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
hey sparty remember when you put GITC on blast for saying d-ho was on PEDs?
August 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
They didn’t need is last year to make the finals though. I guess I am underestimating this. I just don’t think it is that bad for the Magic. I mean it’s not good at all, but I don’t think it will be the difference between them winning and losing in the playoffs.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Not that bad Irish. They should be fine for the first 10 games. Why so pissed?
Because the Eastern Conference Championship is tainted. They didn’t win the NBA final so I don’t give a shit. it’s more funny than anything that a guy who signs a huge contract to be a threat from beyond the arc feels the need to use steroids.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
@KC – your joke smacks of NYC-based bias.
Sincerely,
Paolo
August 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Why so pissed?
this came out of nowhere. I never expected anyone from the NBA to get in trouble for PEDs or any of that shit baseball players were using. I never expected anyone from my favorite team to be guilty of cheating.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
That statement is supposed to be sarcastic right? How anyone could be shocked that an athleate is on PEDs is beyond me.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
all right…before we get an investigation going, i’m going to come clean.
i take steroids.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
GSG – Your comment had an air of ninny bitchness to it.
/we could be here a while
August 6th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I had a different reaction….
OUTRAGE!
Even the French judge gave this a 10.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
did D-Ho get busted? no. Dude is a man child.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I hear Sergio likes a man with tight pectorals.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I find it weird that the NBA is going to start taking mess from the media for steroids in the league for busting a guy. Is the lesson your league’s better off if you sweep it under the rug or just ignore it instead of having tests and consequences?
August 6th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
what are loose pectorals?
August 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
@Lefty – you’re just a puppet of the RNC and Darth Cheney.
/getting close
August 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
This
August 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Thanks for setting me up.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
You’re legacy as the most vociferous commenter here is now tainted and so is any other commenter from the greater Cleveland area just by association.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
what are loose pectorals?
boobs?
August 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Well GSG at least I’m not a conspiracy theorist like you.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Man Boobs
August 6th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Did someone say Yankees?
August 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
TSH: Did you see Youk might be starting in left tonight???
August 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
TSH- you going tonight?
August 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
wait, steroids?
i don’t speak english.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
sparty’s man boob example >>>>>>>>>>>> SC’s man boob example > Eli’s contract
/backhanded compliment
August 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Papi better get the steroid chants reigned down on him after all the shit fenway has given to pettitte, giambi and a-rod.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
@Jersey – I’ve also heard Martinez.
Please let it be true. That would be an adventure far greater than Bill and Ted’s.
@Hernia – Let there be Twi++er Pics!
August 6th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
/stigs’d
August 6th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
go back to slurping more of what you really love to slurp.
[drops mic] [exits stage left]
/paolo’d
August 6th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
as long as they dont start testing for godliness gortat should be fine
thanks for the laugh Duder
August 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
because being bigger, stronger, faster and having more endurance isn’t required in basketball???
if u dont think every single athlete is on something to boost performance u are utterly naive
August 6th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
This is sarcasm right?
August 6th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
@Jersey: Youk in left?
@Sparty: No, still holding out hope that tickets will arrive via messenger any minute.
August 6th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
August 6th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Try that again..
Bingo.
August 6th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
do smiles and buddy hugs count?
/tony romo
August 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Not sure, but we do know that blond hair and big tits don’t count.
/tony romo
August 6th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
i see Boston Red Sox fans are now taking the “everyone is doing it!” train now.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
(safe for work, maybe, maybe not)this
(safe for work, maybe, maybe not)
August 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
This is ridiculous.. I guess rashard got sick of defending power forwards? I’m seriously shocked right now that of all players In The NBA it’s him
August 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Not sure if anyone mentioned this here already, but you can buy DHEA online. I’ve taken it before and I’m not sure it really does shit.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
For the record, some people who drop a lot of E take DHEA to combat the resulting depression. Seems more likely in this case.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I should add that I didn’t know that until I heard it on the radio today, from an ex NBA player…