Mavs’ Owner Mark Cuban Explains The Reason Behind Trading Players Who Smoke Weed

If you want to remain on the roster, don’t smoke too much marijuana around Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

Over the past few years, the NBA has relaxed its marijuana policies and in the most recent CBA, they formally decided to cease testing for it.

Mavs’ Owner Mark Cuban Explains The Reason Behind Trading Players Who Smoke Weed

Numerous well-known figures have acknowledged engaging in that activity on a regular basis and suggested they are not the only ones doing so. For example, J.R. Smith described “The Bubble” as being similar to a huge hotbox, and Kevin Durant claimed to smell like marijuana while urging Adam Silver to officially remove it from the league’s list of prohibited substances.

Weed no longer has any bearing on whether an NBA player gets in problems with the league. But it doesn’t mean that if you can’t put the joint down, it won’t affect how you’re perceived by the team.

In a recent interview for The Pat Bev Pod, Cuban discussed his observations on marijuana use in the NBA. He acknowledged that it had an impact on his choice to move players and provided a very good justification for why.

“Teams have their own culture, right?

If you have some young guys on the team who are still adjusting to the team’s or NBA’s culture, and you have one guy you can see in the hotel hallway without a doubt is on that floor, all of a sudden these other youngsters start catching on.

They emerge from their chamber, and you notice them. As you can see they were a little bit red-eyed coming to practice all of a sudden. You don’t want them going down that road.

Everybody smokes, right? It’s not about that, but there’s smoking, there’s how powerful the s*** you’re doing is, and then there’s how much you do.

If you get past that level and there’s a chance you might drag somebody with you, you got to look at the bigger picture.”

It’s hard to challenge Cuban’s basic logic in his argument. Do you really want a person in the locker room who constantly makes everyone high?

 

 

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