Brian Windhorst: Lebron Letting Cavs Suck On Purpose

I wouldn't assume Kobe uses steroids, but there's other ways to use PEDs and such. Those knee procedures he gets are basically a form of blood doping. Kobe has never gotten significantly bigger though.

Guys like Wade and LeBron and Dwight all show signs of serious steroid/PED use though.

 

I absolutely believe he was using steroids. It's fairly obvious that he was using something before and has stopped since. At the very least he's slowed down. You don't shed muscle mass that easily like Kasumi said. Cutting carbs drops fat, not muscle.

It's conceivable that he dropped carbs and then ran an incredible amount (probably more than before his diet) which would force his body to metabolize the proteins in his muscles. That would result in reduced muscle mass. However, that's really unhealthy AND extremely unlikely given the time frame that he dropped weight.

Keep in mind though that I believe the majority of professional athletes are enhancing their abilities in ways that are against the rules.

 

The NBA just made their biggest ever television deal worth how many billions? Nobody is going to mess with that kind of money. The NBA can make you rich, why shed light on their problems? Once the NBA slows down and viewership fades, you'll start seeing these things come to light. Or maybe the other direction: if the NBA gets as powerful as the NFL, people might take the chance and snitch even knowing they'll lose some business.

Why would he stop using? He probably was told there'd be testing and that he'd have to stop using. There were plenty of rumors that the NBA was going to try to get more serious about PED usage.

 

If someone were to come out and shed light on LeBron's PED usage, does anybody know what will happen? He'll get suspended, but is that it? Will his records be dropped? Or what about the rings?

 

It'd flood out how prevalent PED use is in the NBA. I don't know that LeBron would go down without implicating a lot of others too. Wade would be an easy target. Maybe Howard since everyone already hates him.

I think it'd be much like Barry Bonds, except people will be more apt to forgive him.

 

Healing faster is still performance enhancing. I really don't care, the NBA could have done something about it, but they didn't and now it's too late to put their foot down on it.

Honestly I'm not even against PEDs and just PEs at all. If it's done right it's not that dangerous and it makes the athletes better, stronger, and faster. It gives us as fans a better product. But there's been so many mixed messages, the rules are all murky, they don't want to encourage PEDs and PEs in kids who can't control it like alcohol or cigarettes.

I just feel like if we're going to bury everybody who has used PEDs in professional sports, guys in the NBA shouldn't be exempt. Especially not their leading role model.

 

So LeBron quits on his team for a night, and it's teaching a lesson. Now I've heard it all. This is simply ESPN and LeBron's obsessed fanboy stalker/writer setting up LeBron's hero story for if and when they win it all. This is the learning process stage, the horrible imaginary dark times they need to set up to make the winning in the end look even more amazing. I couldn't wish for them never to win any harder, I'd love to see the happy end to this story never written.