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Darius Miles’ Suspension Was for Using Weight-Loss Drug

 
07.20.2008 - Updated on 07.20.2008
Sources say all 30 teams were notified this week by league memorandum that the drug which earned Portland Trail Blazers castoff Darius Miles a 10-game suspension to start next season — if Miles can find a job — is the appetite suppressant Phentermine.

A weight-loss drug, basically.

Steep as a 10-game ban is, then, Miles’ mistake is nothing bound to scare teams away from signing him. He’s tried out for at least four clubs already this month — Boston, Dallas, New Jersey and Phoenix — and is expected to command no more than a minimum salary in his comeback from long-standing knee problems, because the 26-year-old still has $18 million in salary coming from the Blazers.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&page=NBA-Notes-080719



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