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O. J. Mayo: Milwaukee Bucks: 2016 2016–17: On July 1, 2016, Mayo was banned from playing in the NBA for violating the league's substance abuse policy by smoking marijuana and abusing painkillers. He was eligible to apply for reinstatement in 2018, but he has not yet returned to the NBA properly as of 2024. [136]
O. J. Mayo playing for USC in a game against UCLA's Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love. Mayo had given Kansas State a soft verbal commitment to play for them, [16] but retracted it when head coach Bob Huggins announced he would take the same position at West Virginia. Frank Martin, by whom Mayo was recruited, was named head coach.
Probes by both USC and the NCAA found that football star Reggie Bush, the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, and basketball star O. J. Mayo had effectively forfeited their amateur status (in Mayo's case, before he ever played a game for USC) by accepting gifts from agents.
NBA veteran O.J. Mayo, 28, has been "dismissed and disqualified" from the NBA for violating the NBA's antidrug program, the NBA announced on Friday.
Mayo has been out of the NBA since receiving a two-year suspension in 2016 for violating the anti-drug program. He is eligible for reinstatement into the NBA this summer.
2011: O. J. Mayo (steroid: DHEA) 2013: Hedo Türkoğlu (anabolic steroid: methenolone) [59] Several other players have been banned for testing positive for illegal drugs four times, mostly for cocaine use. Under the 1983 policy, such players are eligible to reapply for reinstatement after two years. [60]
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