When it comes to marijuana in the NBA, “everyone does it”, according to Kevin Durant, a former league MVP and one of the top 15 scorers in league history.
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Last month the National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Players Association officially signed a collective bargaining agreement that not only removes marijuana from the league’s list of banned substances, it allows players to invest in marijuana companies. According to Phoenix Suns power forward Kevin Durant, he played a key role in getting the league’s commissioner to agree to the change.
In a recent interview Durant says he held a meeting with commissioner Adam Silver to personally ask him to support making marijuana no longer a banned substance.
“I actually called [Adam Silver] and advocated for him to take marijuana off the banned substances list,” Durant told ClutchPoints. “I just felt like it was becoming a thing around the country, around the world. The stigma behind it wasn’t as negative as it was before. It doesn’t affect you in any negative way. … I just enjoy the plant, as simple as that.”
Durant said that Silver “smelt [marijuana] when I walked in so I didn’t really have to say much. He kinda understood where this was going. It’s the NBA, man, everybody does it. It’s like wine at this point.”
