Steroids do not make your jaw bigger. They can bloat your face from water retention, however. I would not be surprised if he is roided but his weight gain from 21 until now isn't uncommon at all.
Good point, like i mentioned earlier, the summer wade bulked up was the same as the Olympics. He came into the Olympics looking more muscular then ever.
I was thinking if it could only track a few days or a few weeks, then they could just stop using it before the Olympics and would not be caught.
Had to bump this, so apparently while illegal, the league doesn't even test for some of these things http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8521302/wada-director-general-says-nba-gaps-anti-doping-program
Pro sports loves juicing. The bigger numbers draw in fans. Everything is a dog and pony show until the public raises hell.
I don't see how anyone can question LeBron unless they think he has been using since high school, since he had a NBA body since then.
Don't the Olympics test for steroids? I read recently that players didn't want to be the leading scorer for the team 20 years ago because then they had to take a drug test. I think it was Magic who said it was just a pain, not that they were afraid of failing the test. I could be mistaken. Maybe protocol has changed.
Yup, you think David Stern wanted in on the steroid stuff NOPE, he had enough issues-So ya I def. suspect that NBA players have used steroids, for the fact of to make them faster, stronger, bigger, more powerful players, that can recover quicker....His Jaw has got huge, I always did notice that, T-mac for example never looked like he worked out very much, other than that "training video that was ridiculous", but T-Mac, Dirk, these guys for example never changed too much in their appearance, yes they were skinny coming into the L, but they look natural and grew into their bodies, I can't believe I even mention T-Mac, but, him, and Dirk (Which I'm not comparing) just came to me off the top of my head as non users, and plenty of others that don't use....But yea Dwade and his acne, and the face features, and him slowly tearing apart, breaking down, all signs of steroids negative attributes to the tendons, and such....man interesting I DON'T DOUBT IT, and I think that while it may not be like football, or baseball, maybe it is high like baseball, because when you look at baseball, you think the same thing well how do steroids make you have better hand ball eye contact, or whatever, but it makes you able to recover quickly, and stay in INCREDIBLE SHAPE...I think Tiger used steroids, and who knows that might cost him his chance at "Jack's Record"-not "the car crash" "girlfriend drama"....I don't know what the NBA tests for with steroids, but I bet they don't care if Kevin Love, LBJ, DWADE, Kobe (and his German MAGICIANS) etc. etc., etc. the list continues...I don't doubt it!
Professional athletes in every sport take performance enhancing drugs. There is a whole industry around providing athletes with drugs that will allow them to "beat the test" so to speak (like Lance Armstrong for example, who was doping more than anybody but never outright failed his tests). One of the days a former player in need of money, a la Jose Canseco, will come out and tell the media about how EVERYBODY is on something. That doesn't mean they're all shooting themselves up with steroids, but they're all taking stuff to make them faster and stronger that is if not strictly against the letter of the anti-drug rules, certainly against the spirit of them.
And also, apparent changes to muscle mass (obviously), facial shape, acne, constant injuries aren't necessarily proof of steroid use...you can't ever know for SURE based just on what you can see. Yes you can have reasonable suspicion, but you can never know. As has been said already bodies and faces do change as people get older for a variety of reasons.
we're not in court idiot, we are just discussing on a message board so we aren't trying to convict dwade of sterods beyond reasonable doubt. Like many of the topics we discuss/speculate noob.
i mean, why not? he chew a lot of gum and his jaw muscle is probably really big. also, every year, he tear some part of his muscle at least few times in the last couple years, steroid users are prone to that
