<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">NEW YORK, March 7, 2007 – The NBA announced today that Lindsey Hunter of the Detroit Pistons has been suspended without pay for 10 games for testing positive for phentermine, a substance banned by the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program. Hunter’s suspension will begin with tonight’s game between the Detroit Pistons and the Cleveland Cavaliers.</div> Link More minutes for Flip. Never thought that Lindsey Hunter would test positive for a banned drug. Who says that the NBA doesn't have a performance enhancing drug problem?
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Phentermine is a drug primarily used as an appetite suppressant. Chemically, it is an amphetamine (and a phenethylamine). It is typically prescribed for individuals who are at increased medical risk because of their weight, as opposed to cosmetic weight loss. Phentermine is sold either as an immediate-release formulation (Adipex?) or as a slow-release resin (Ionamin?, Duromine? in Australia and New Zealand). </div> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phentermine It doesn't sound like a performance enhancing drug. He might've just used it to drop a few lbs too fast. 10 games seems to be a bit harsh.
I looked up phentermine, and apparently, it's just an appetite suppressant. I just wanted to clear that up before people started accusing Hunter of being a juicer or a drug addict.
<div class="quote_poster">dallasdude Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">It doesn't sound like a performance enhancing drug. He might've just used it to drop a few lbs too fast. 10 games seems to be a bit harsh. </div> I know it seems harsh, but think about it this way. These guys make millions of dollars to play basketball, and in doing so, they agree to certain terms set forth by the NBA which include an agreement to not use any of the league's banned substances. If he took the substance phentermine in some form, and that's clearly banned by the NBA, then he deserves every bit of ten games, whether it significantly improved his game or not. In fact, he probably deserves to be suspended for longer. Why do non-performance enhancing drugs like LSD get you banned from the league for two years, but a drug like phentermine gets you ten games? That's flawed logic.
<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I know it seems harsh, but think about it this way. These guys make millions of dollars to play basketball, and in doing so, they agree to certain terms set forth by the NBA which include an agreement to not use any of the league's banned substances. If he took the substance phentermine in some form, and that's clearly banned by the NBA, then he deserves every bit of ten games, whether it significantly improved his game or not. In fact, he probably deserves to be suspended for longer. Why do non-performance enhancing drugs like LSD get you banned from the league for two years, but a drug like phentermine gets you ten games? That's flawed logic.</div> Is that what Andersen got banned for?
<div class="quote_poster">Bobcats Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Is that what Andersen got banned for?</div> They never specified what he tested positive for, but it more than likely wasn't acid, that was just a hypothetical example, because it's only detectable in urine tests for three days after you take it. Trust me, I know all this stuff. I used to be on athletic scholarship at a school and one of the conditions was that I be drug tested annually. It was probably coke, meth, or heroin. Steroids and other performance enhancers are given different penalties.
Hunter said it was his Wife's pills that he took. It is not illegal but it is banned by the NBA Therefore, Lindsey may have been unaware of the rule.
<div class="quote_poster">Detroit Madness Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Hunter said it was his Wife's pills that he took. It is not illegal but it is banned by the NBA Therefore, Lindsey may have been unaware of the rule.</div> I can believe that the guy honestly didn't know they were against the NBA rules, but if you're an athlete making that much money, why would you ever put your career on the line by taking strange pills? He should have at least found out what was in them.
<div class="quote_poster">slpnsld23 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Im just wondering why the hell he was taking womans pills.</div> lol, pills are pills, theres no gender to them.
If they were diet pills they were most likely prescribed to her. I think there is a difference between mens diet pills and womans diet pills.
