Bobby Portis won’t be qualified to return for your Bucks until finally April 8. (Image by Stacy Revere/Getty Photos)
Milwaukee Bucks ahead Bobby Portis was suspended 25 game titles with out purchase violating the NBA’s anti-drug software, the league announced Thursday. He examined constructive for Tramadol.

Portis’ agent, Mark Bartelstein, introduced a press release boasting the violation was in essence a mixture-up. Bartelstein explained Portis thought he was using a soreness medication known as Toradol, which is accredited, but rather took Tramadol, which isn't. The statement claimed Portis was given the incorrect medication by an assistant of his, and it absolutely was “an genuine error.”

“Bobby Portis is completely not a drug abuser,” Bartelstein wrote. “Bobby functions tirelessly on escalating hisperformance in all normal, authorized and wholesome ways, but he created a miscalculation and took a tablet that unknowingly he shouldn't have. These days, in this instance, I am so deeply disappointed that the NBA chooses to interpret its coverage so strictly, and which the plan will not permit for a unique result for an trustworthy oversight with pure intentions.”

In a press release released because of the Bucks, Portis stated, “I come to feel Terrible and figure out which i’m to blame for what I put in my overall body. From The underside of my heart, I need to apologize on the Bucks organization, my teammates, coaches, family members and lovers. I give almost everything I have over the court docket and may terribly miss actively playing online games to the Bucks all through this time.”

Bucks typical manager Jon Horst said that though “that is a quite challenging list of conditions for Bobby and our team … we 100% guidance Bobby.”

The twenty five-sport suspension would make Portis ineligible to return right until the Bucks’ April eight home recreation from the Minnesota Timberwolves. Such as that recreation, the Bucks would have just four standard-period games remaining. Milwaukee presently sits in fifth location inside the Jap Conference, one recreation again with the Indiana Pacers.

Portis has performed in forty six games for your Bucks this year, averaging twenty five.2 minutes, thirteen.seven factors and 8.three rebounds for every game.