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After a long day running errands and out with my family, I came home to check out the latest happenings in the world of sports. When I read a troubling headline,“RASHARD LEWIS TESTED POSITIVE FOR STEROIDS”. What, are you serious? Like steroids the baseball players take? No way Jose (no pun intended). Before you go jump off the bridge and calling all sports a fraud. Rashard took a pill form of red bull.

According to the beloved and former Boston Globe columnist Jackie MacMullan, he has tested positive for the steroids precursor DHEA. DHEA is something that we have naturally in our bodies to begin with but when taken over the counter it adds adrenalin to your body. Lewis said that he began taking this toward the end of the season to boost his energy levels. This is understandable, you will need to have the maximum amount of energy to make a push for the finals. But this leads me to the question is this really cheating?

No one is questioning Lewis like we all do any other sport that is found to have failed a piss test. Maybe because we all don’t think its possible to take something to cheat in basketball. But I believe they should and do so around the league. In basketball extra energy boost are uber essential. This enables you to put the finishing touches on a game while everyone else has the cement heavy legs. How many times late in the season and in the post season did you see Rashard Lewis make a game changing shot very late in a game to secure a victory? Too many times. He even made a several shots late to beat King James and prevented the Kobe vs LeBron match up. I’m going to be careful not to fully label him as a cheater but if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and look like a duck tell me what you think it is!