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Mark Cuban Wants NBA to Consider Allowing Use of HGH(註一)
Mark Cuban希望NBA考慮准許使用生長激素
The injuries to star players in the 2013-14 NBA season have been
disappointing and happening at a relatively alarming rate. Derrick Rose, Kobe
Bryant and Russell Westbrook are just a few stars that have been out for much
of the season, with guys like Anthony Davis and Eric Bledsoe also missing
significant portions of time this year.
NBA 2013-14球季已經有許多球星受傷，傷病令大家沮喪而且發生的比率很高。Derrick
Rose、Kobe Bryant和Russell Westbrook只是其中幾個已經缺席大部分賽季的球星。就連
Anthony Davis和Eric Bledsoe今年也缺席了很多時間。
However, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban—ever the forward-thinker—has a
proposed solution. According to a report from Sam Amick of USA Today, Cuban
believes that the NBA should look into allowing the use of HGH,
particularly study the effects of HGH on players recovering from injuries and
how it can aid their journey to get back on the floor.
但小牛隊老闆Mark Cuban—有遠景的思想家—提出了一個解決方法。根據報導，Cuban相
信NBA應該研究是否可以使用生長激素。研究生長激素對球員從傷病中復原的影響還有它
如何加快球員回到球場上的過程。
Cuban made it clear that he didn’t know enough on the topic of HGH—which is
currently on the NBA’s list of banned substances—to fully advocate it, but
he believes that the league shouldn’t just accept the negative stigma
that has been placed on the substance and should instead fund research to see
if there are any potential benefits to the use of HGH.
Cuban澄清他對生長激素也不甚了解—它被NBA列為其中一種禁藥。但Cuban相信聯盟不應
該只看到它不好的一面，而要投入研究，了解使用生長激素是否有潛在的好處。
Amick went on to describe the major “hurdle” to the league
potentially allowing the use of HGH is the simple fact that the FDA(註二)
even has strict regulations on the use of the drug and the use of it to help
speed along the recovery from injuries isn’t necessarily one of those
allowed uses by the administration.
記者Amick繼續說明聯盟准許使用生長激素的主要障礙很簡單，就是FDA對使用這種藥物有
嚴格的管制。想要用它來加快復原並不在准許使用的範圍內。
Cuban does raise an interesting point, though. There is a distinct lack of
knowledge regarding the potential benefits of HGH. Perhaps there are none.
Perhaps there’s no way to regulate the use of HGH in the NBA to only be used
for recovery. However, those questions don’t matter until there’s more
known about what effects the drug can have in that regard, which is exactly
Cuban’s point. HGH won’t be allowed any time soon in the NBA, but the idea
of looking further into it isn’t a bad one by any means.
Cuban確實提到了有趣的觀點。我們還不清楚生長激素潛在的好處，也許沒有好處。NBA也
許沒有辦法規範球員是否只用生長激素做復原。無論如何，跟Cuban講的一樣，這些問
題在我們搞懂這個藥物對復原的影響之前不用去考慮。使用生長激素短時間內不會被NBA
准許，但對它做更多研究怎麼說都不是壞事。
註一：HGH (Human Growth Hormone) 生長激素
可以促進動物和人的發育以及細胞的增殖，有減少體內脂肪、增加肌肉、增加骨密度、增
加體力、改善皮膚光澤和肌理、改善免疫系統功能等療效。目前，HGH仍然是一種非常複
雜的激素，許多功能仍不清楚。(來源：Wiki)
註二：FDA (Food and Drug Administration) 食品和藥品管理局(美國)
負責全國藥品、食品、生物製品、化妝品、獸藥、醫療器械以及診斷用品等的管理。FDA
下設藥品局、食品局、獸藥局、放射衛生局、生物製品局、醫療器械及診斷用品局和國家
毒理研究中心、區域工作管理機構，即6個局。(來源：www.sunreach.com)
圖、FDA標誌