The NBA won’t subject its players to random marijuana tests during the 2021/22 season, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. The NBPA sent out a memo this week informing players of the news.
Random marijuana testing had been a part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the league and the players’ union, but the two sides agreed not to resume those tests during the 2020 bubble in Orlando and has stuck with that policy ever since.
While the NBA will continue to test players for performance-enhancers and drugs of abuse, it wouldn’t be surprise me if the NBA and NBPA eventually agree to end random marijuana testing permanently.
Here are more odds and ends from around the basketball world:
- NBA players have been informed that if they’re unvaccinated and violate quarantine guidelines while visiting Toronto, they could face criminal charges in Canada, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic. Unvaccinated players will be able to play in Toronto, but can only leave their hotel for team activities. The Raptors have indicated they’ll be fully vaccinated for the season.
- Joe Vardon of The Athletic provides a few more details from the indictment against 18 former NBA players accused of defrauding the NBA’s health and welfare benefit plan. According to Vardon, Tony Allen, Glen Davis, and Tony Wroten submitted claims for root canals purportedly performed on the same teeth on the same day.
- In an Insider-only story for ESPN, Jonathan Givony checks in on the NBA Academy program, five years after its inception, to evaluate whether it has been a success so far and to consider where it will go from here.
I hear those jails in Canada are supposed to be quite unpleasant. They make you eat french fries smothered with gravy, this stuff they call poutine. Sounds disgusting.
Poutine’s cash money it slaps. If I ever got arrested and they served me poutine I’d see that as a plus ngl
I’ve been to Canada, and I’ve tried it a few times. I was only kidding about it being disgusting, but I wasn’t that impressed with it either.
But I did go to a chinese restaurant in a small town in Nova Scotia that served gravy on the side. Canadians love their gravy too much.
Hmmm. Biscuits and gravy? I believe Americans live there gravy to much.
yeah, if they did serve poutine in Canadian jails I’d try and get in there for sure.
Root-canal invoices, get them while they’re hot! Guaranteed to pass HMO muster… just pick a different tooth, #1 thru #32.