Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis was suspended without pay for 25 games after violating the league’s anti-drug policy by testing positive for Tramadol, the NBA announced Thursday.
“Bobby unintentionally took a pain medication called Tramadol, thinking he was taking a pain medication called Toradol,” Portis’ agent, Mark Bartelstein, told ESPN’s Shams Charania. “Toradol is an approved pain medication that he has used previously and that teams and players use for pain and inflammation at times. Tramadol, however, is not an approved pain medication and was just recently added to the banned substance list this past spring. The Tramadol pill he took came from an assistant of his, with a valid prescription for the painkiller, which…