The use of marijuana is not prohibited in the NBA and the league stopped testing for the substance in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks are 12th in the Western Conference and have won two of their five games this season.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Matas Buzelis scored 27 points while Josh Giddey and Nikola Vucevic both chipped in with double-doubles to extend the Chicago Bulls’ perfect start to the season.<\/p>\n
The Bulls have won all four of their games and sit top of the Eastern Conference after beating the Sacramento Kings 126-113 in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Austin Reaves scored on the buzzer to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 116-115 win against the Minnesota Timberwolves in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
Reaves ended the game with 28 points and 16 assists to make up for the absence of injured Lakers stars LeBron James and Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n
Ja Morant’s 28 points for the Memphis Grizzlies in Arizona consigned the Phoenix Suns to a fourth successive loss.<\/p>\n
The Portland Trail Blazers profited from Jrue Holiday’s four key free throws in the final seconds to earn a 136-134 win over the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n
The New Orleans Pelicans remain the only side in the Western Conference yet to win after losing 122-88 at the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n
Kevin Durant put on a strong late showing, scoring 12 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter, to guide the Houston Rockets to a 139-121 win against the Toronto Raptors in Ontario.<\/p>\n
The Orlando Magic fell to a fourth successive defeat at the Detroit Pistons, with Cade Cunningham’s 30 points and 10 assists helping the hosts to a 135-116 win.<\/p>\n
In New York, the Atlanta Hawks overcame an early 12-0 deficit to win 117-112 at the Brooklyn Nets, who are yet to win any of their opening five games.<\/p>\n
The Boston Celtics made home court advantage count as Jaylen Brown scored a game-high 30 points in a 125-105 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The use of marijuana is not prohibited in the NBA and the league stopped testing for the substance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-249684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}