Bobby Portis won’t be qualified to return for the Bucks right until April 8. (Photograph by Stacy Revere/Getty Illustrations or photos)
Milwaukee Bucks ahead Bobby Portis was suspended twenty five game titles with out purchase violating the NBA’s anti-drug software, the league introduced Thursday. He examined favourable for Tramadol.

Portis’ agent, Mark Bartelstein, released a statement declaring the violation was primarily a combination-up. Bartelstein mentioned Portis imagined he was using a soreness medication named Toradol, and that is authorised, but instead took Tramadol, which isn't. The assertion mentioned Portis was provided the incorrect medication by an assistant of his, and it was “an sincere mistake.”

“Bobby Portis is completely not a drug abuser,” Bartelstein wrote. “Bobby is effective tirelessly on raising hisperformance in all pure, legal and wholesome means, but he designed a miscalculation and took a pill that unknowingly he must not have. Nowadays, On this occasion, I am so deeply upset the NBA chooses to interpret its plan so strictly, and that the plan will not allow for a unique outcome for an honest miscalculation with pure intentions.”

In a statement introduced from the Bucks, Portis claimed, “I really feel Terrible and recognize that I’m responsible for what I put in my overall body. From The underside of my heart, I desire to apologize to the Bucks Business, my teammates, coaches, spouse and children and followers. I give anything I've on the court and can terribly miss out on participating in games for your Bucks for the duration of this time.”

Bucks typical supervisor Jon Horst said that whilst “it is a very hard set of conditions for Bobby and our staff … we one hundred% guidance Bobby.”

The twenty five-video game suspension would make Portis ineligible to return right until the Bucks’ April eight household activity versus the Minnesota Timberwolves. Together with that activity, the Bucks would've just 4 standard-period video games remaining. Milwaukee at present sits in fifth spot inside the Eastern Meeting, just one video game back again from the Indiana Pacers.

Portis has performed in forty six video games for the Bucks this time, averaging 25.two minutes, 13.7 factors and 8.three rebounds per game.