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(Medical-NewsWire.com, April 06, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- The National Basketball Players Association and the NBA are reportedly close to an agreement that will see players tested for human growth hormone, according to sources that have direct knowledge of the talks. Testing could begin as quickly as the 2013-14 season.
The NBA has had HGH on its list of banned substances, however, it has never directly tested for it. By doing so, it means collecting players' blood, which the union has never before allowed, and there was little agreement regarding how reliable the tests actually were.
Such concerns have eroded as of late, and sources now say that with a frenzy of progress in talks between the two oft-entrenched sides, there is movement on the HGH front as well. The decisive factor will be Major League Baseball and its respected union having agreed to blood test for HGH, which weakened the basketball union's claim that such a test was unreliable and blood sampling too invasive.
There was a committee created thanks to the 2011 NBA collective bargaining agreement that was set to tackle the item of HGH directly. Until now, progress had remained slow.
There have also been pressure by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which chided the NBA for “gaps” that were involved in the testing last fall. There was also pressure from the United States Congress. At the tail-end of 2012, Representative Elijah Cummings called for the delay of HGH testing due to concerns about the test being “incredibly ridiculous.”
In a statement emailed to ESPN.com, Cummings elaborated: "According to the expert witnesses who testified at our hearing, there is consensus among the scientific community that HGH testing is safe and reliable. Since the NBA agreed last year to start HGH testing -- and since professional basketball players already compete in the Olympics, where they are subject to HGH testing -- there is no reason to delay HGH testing for the NBA itself. My hope is that all our professional sports leagues implement HGH testing right away to set an example for millions of young athletes across the country who look up to them."
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