Bobby Portis received’t be suitable to return for that Bucks until finally April eight. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Visuals)
Milwaukee Bucks ahead Bobby Portis was suspended 25 online games with out pay for violating the NBA’s anti-drug software, the league declared Thursday. He analyzed constructive for Tramadol.

Portis’ agent, Mark Bartelstein, introduced a statement declaring the violation was fundamentally a mix-up. Bartelstein claimed Portis believed he was getting a discomfort medication called Toradol, which happens to be authorised, but rather took Tramadol, which isn't. The assertion claimed Portis was presented the incorrect medication by an assistant of his, and it was “an honest slip-up.”

“Bobby Portis is totally not a drug abuser,” Bartelstein wrote. “Bobby operates tirelessly on expanding hisperformance in all pure, legal and nutritious ways, but he manufactured a slip-up and took a tablet that unknowingly he must not have. These days, With this occasion, I am so deeply upset which the NBA chooses to interpret its plan so strictly, and which the plan doesn't let for a unique final result for an honest mistake with pure intentions.”

In a statement launched through the Bucks, Portis claimed, “I truly feel horrible and figure out that I’m answerable for what I place in my physique. From The underside of my heart, I choose to apologize on the Bucks Business, my teammates, coaches, spouse and children and lovers. I give almost everything I've around the court and will terribly miss out on taking part in online games for that Bucks during this time.”

Bucks normal supervisor Jon Horst said that even though “this is the quite challenging list of instances for Bobby and our group … we 100% help Bobby.”

The 25-sport suspension would make Portis ineligible to return until eventually the Bucks’ April 8 dwelling video game from the Minnesota Timberwolves. Together with that video game, the Bucks might have just 4 typical-time video games remaining. Milwaukee at this time sits in fifth area while in the Eastern Convention, just one sport back again from the Indiana Pacers.

Portis has played in forty six game titles to the Bucks this time, averaging twenty five.two minutes, thirteen.seven points and eight.three rebounds for each game.