So who in the NBA is using or used roids?

[Eja117]

It looks like nobody has posted this yet and I hate to be a killjoy, but...

I know basketball doesn't lend itself to steroids as much as other sports, but you cannot tell me that out of that many pro athletes nobody is using. And I said roids, not "banned substances" cause then everyone would yell Lebron and Oden at the same time.

I got in no particular order....Shaq, karl malone, D Howard, Kenyon Martin, Chauncey Billups, Lamar Odom, Steve Nash, Amare Stoudamire, Yao Ming, Wang Zhi Zhi, Emeka Okafor, Shawn Marion, Jermaine O'Neal, Gilbert Arenas, Zach Randolph, James Posey, Eddy Curry, Stephon Marbury, Rasheed Wallace, Spree, Kevin Martin, Hakkim Warrik, Michael Redd, Ron Artest, Perk, Rondo, D Wade

and I guess that's it for now

[greg683x]

no one.  in america its innocent until proven guilty and the NBA seems like they have a good testing program.

.....in other words basketball is my favorite sport and I dont want it ruined with conversation like this starting up.

[cornbreadsmart]

eja117, i'm curious why you selected some of these guys. most don't have the physical appearance of a steroid user in my opinion. do you mean maybe beause ceratin guys have bad tempers or something? or do you mean a kind of roid that lance armstrong was accused of?

[MattG12]

DHoward and Lebron are the only two players I am remotely skeptical towards. Basketball players don't really need steroids unless they're straight up power players. Nash, Rondo, Posey, Steph, Chauncey, Yao? Are you serious with those accusations? Howard and Lebron are the only two who I wouldn't be surprised of. Everybody else would surprise me. I would like to think the NBA is a pretty respectable association... It is pretty unfair to start a thread like this with no proof at all.

[dark_lord]

hypotheticals, assumptions, and defamation of character....gotta love celticsblog

[guava_wrench]

I would speculate Scal, Oliver Miller, and Manute Bol.

[Donoghus]

hypotheticals, assumptions, and defamation of character....gotta love celticsblog

No kidding.  I'm not gonna speculate and throw out empty accusations. 

[KCattheStripe]

Very strange list.

[Junkyard Dawg]

it sucks to think about, but come on now you can't be surprised about someone bringing it up.  im surprised people dont talk about it more.

i just don't know how you would decide who was using and who wasn't.. if you're talking about being abnormally huge, I can see lebron and some other guys thrown in the "fray".  but from what's happened in baseball, you can't just accuse the guys who look abnormally huge, you have to suspect everyone from the backup infielder who plays once a week and relievers who spend most of their careers in the minors, to guys like Arod, clemens and Bonds.

so i dont know how you come up with the list you did, and i wouldn't know how to come up with one period.

[KCattheStripe]

Barkley made an interesting point about roids in the NBA. He said it would be much harder to hide Steroid usage in NBA players because of the uniforms, you could see rapid muscle growth and definition a lot easier.

[ACF]

[Danimals]

... do you mean a kind of roid that lance armstrong was accused of?

Hahaha.  Roids in cycling.

I'm from Inglewood. That's right. Paul Pierce's hometown.

And going to high school there, you learn one thing if nothing else: People are poor. And the athletics programs in poor communities like that are anything but overflowing with endowments from involved parents and the concomitant high expectations.

So kids there aren't as likely to shoot up designer drugs to dull the pain and pressure of excelling to meet their old man's high expectations. And Junior isn't liking to be using his allowance to get juiced, because most likely, Junior doesn't have an allowance (unlike kids from more affluent communities who are dreaming of being future studs in sports like baseball, wrestling, and cycling.

Conjectures are fun!

[RAcker]

We've all heard of Roid Rage...I gotta go with Thibs.  Have you watched him during a game?  Wow.  Each defensive trip down the floor for the C's, he turns into Lyle Alzado!

[celticmaestro]

Shaq, karl malone, D Howard, Kenyon Martin, Chauncey Billups, Lamar Odom, Steve Nash, Amare Stoudamire, Yao Ming, Wang Zhi Zhi, Emeka Okafor, Shawn Marion, Jermaine O'Neal, Gilbert Arenas, Zach Randolph, James Posey, Eddy Curry, Stephon Marbury, Rasheed Wallace, Spree, Kevin Martin, Hakkim Warrik, Michael Redd, Ron Artest, Perk, Rondo, D Wade

This list makes no sense. Steve Nash on steroids? Michael Redd? Come on now, behave.

However, I know Nate Robinson injects "roids" into his legs.

[Boris Badenov]

DHoward and Lebron are the only two players I am remotely skeptical towards. Basketball players don't really need steroids unless they're straight up power players. Nash, Rondo, Posey, Steph, Chauncey, Yao? Are you serious with those accusations? Howard and Lebron are the only two who I wouldn't be surprised of. Everybody else would surprise me. I would like to think the NBA is a pretty respectable association... It is pretty unfair to start a thread like this with no proof at all.

I think steroids also help with recovery from injury. I see that as the most likely motive in the NBA.

That motive also changes the set of players you would suspect.