After Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and other Warriors came out in support of head coach Steve Kerr’s admission that he used marijuana for chronic back pain on Saturday afternoon, the league office decided it was their turn to chime in.
Kerr admitted to using marijuana two times in the last year on Monte Poole’s CSN Bay Area podcast on Friday. He also mentioned that he wasn’t sure or not if he’d be in trouble for doing so, or if he was subject to being drug tested.
On Saturday, the NBA issued the following statement, and seemed pretty chill about the whole thing:
“All of our coaches are drug tested each season. Marijuana is included on our banned substances list. There are medical exceptions to our policy but, in this case, it’s not relevant because Steve said he did not find marijuana to be helpful in relieving his back pain.”