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I know college basketball has been over with but Mitch McGary is going to the NBA.....He's recieved a year long ban from the NCAA for smoking pot. He failed a drug test...If he gets drafted even in the 2nd round he'll be lucky.
McGary forced to go to the NBA draft because he smoked a joint. I can understand a year-long suspension if he took PEDs, steroids, or the like. But...weed...that probably impairs you more than anything, and probably isn't any worse than alcohol. Dude wasn't even actively playing and passed all his other tests and was a first-time offender and says he smoked once in March and ended up getting tested at the tournament a month later (and he didn't have to admit this...this would have been secret but he was accountable enough to come out and admit his mistake).
The rules are just dumb though. Even the NCAA realized it was dumb and changed it, but since McGary's test was like a week before those changes, he fell under the old rules. Michigan even appealed and it was denied, even though I don't get why. It's rather disturbing how some players commit actual serious crimes and are still allowed to play, but an inactive McGary smokes something that's probably going to be legal in a lot more states soon and faces a year suspension. If the school punishment is 3 games, the 'harsher' tournament punishment if anything should just be like maximum 10 games.