Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
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.
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. Former No. 3 overall pick ...
In January 2011, NBA player O. J. Mayo was given a 10-game suspension after testing positive for prasterone. Mayo termed his use of prasterone as "an honest mistake," saying the prasterone was in an over-the-counter supplement and that he was unaware the supplement was banned by the NBA. [87]
The incident, combined with Arenas's trivialization of it in the media, led to his suspension from the NBA on January 6, 2010. [1] A game of Bourré also sparked a fight on the Memphis Grizzlies' team plane between NBA teammates OJ Mayo and Tony Allen in January 2011, when Mayo refused to settle a debt from a game. [2]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!