NBA All-Star Kevin Durant says he personally lobbied the league’s commissioner to get marijuana removed from the banned substances list for players—and during one meeting, he said the official caught a whiff of cannabis on him.
At a CNBC and Boardroom “Game Plan” sports business conference on Tuesday, Durant was asked how he managed to “persuade” Commissioner Adam Silver to lift the cannabis ban. He started by noting that “he smelled it when I walked in.”
“I didn’t really have to say much, you know what I’m saying? He kind of understood where this was going,” he said. “I just felt like it was becoming a thing around the country—around the world. The stigma behind it wasn’t as negative as it was before. It doesn’t affect you in any negative way.”
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Durant, who teamed up with the online marijuana marketplace Weedmaps on a campaign to destigmatize cannabis, said at the CNBC event that the commissioner “agreed” with him. “It’s the NBA. Everybody does it. It’s like wine at this point.”
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