Chinese Basketball Association responds to Shanghai men's basketball team's foreign player doping violation: will handle it seriously

On July 11th, the Chinese Basketball Association announced that the China Anti-Doping Agency had disclosed doping violations on July 10th. The results of the doping test conducted on May 6th, 2026 during a game showed that Hassan Whiteside, a foreign player of the CBA League Shanghai Jiushi Basketball Club, tested positive for protein assimilation agents and atypical hormones and metabolic regulators.