Elijah Bryant argues LeBron James likely uses performance-enhancing drugs to recover quickly and maintain his physique, suggesting the NBA might tolerate it for business reasons. Bryant says PEDs would give a competitive advantage but doubts the truth will ever come out.
Is LeBron James using performance-enhancing drugs? Me personally, there's no way possible he's had this type of career and hasn't used performance-enhancing drugs. This doesn't take away the fact that he's a great basketball player. He hits shots, he's one of the best passers ever, he wins. But to recover that fast, to never be injured that much, and to maintain your body physique throughout all these years, he's had to been using something. And to be quite honest, if I was the NBA, I would be okay with it from a business standpoint. Why wouldn't you want your best product to be out on the floor as much as possible? It allows him to get stronger faster, recover faster, all this stuff, but it doesn't make the ball go in more. So it is a competitive advantage, but not a skill advantage, if I had to say. Regardless, we're never going to find out what really happened.
