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It's really difficult, Dan, especially with as progressive a league as the NBA is as it pertains to mental health.

Pretty much everything is allowed.

There are some stimulants that are against the rules.

However, they even give waivers provided you present the proper prescription and you just run it by the league.

It's really, really difficult to get pinched for something like this in that league.

It's just like that.

It's just like that.

And also, we're talking about a player that has struggled to stay on the court, that at his age, you can understand if he were to turn to something to get back on the court and have an extended run and show that he's worth the money.

I mean, it doesn't go beyond the scope of imagination here.

Let's look into the past and see how many players have been popped for something outside of PEDs.

So the last 25 game bans, Jody Meeks in 18 for PEDs.

Wilson Chandler, PEDs, 25 games.

John Collins, 25 games for PEDs, a peptide.

DeAndre Ayton tested positive for a diuretic.

Some say it was PEDs and they were trying to wash it through.

Bobby Portis, 25 games for a pain medicine.

And then Paul George with this very...

Tristan Thompson, too, but ambiguously, you know, mental health medicine, whatever that may be.

Whatever happened to the Al Jazeera report with Peyton Manning's wife?

getting stuff, and then all of a sudden his neck was okay, they won a Super Bowl, and then it kind of disappeared.