LeBron James is arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. LeBron James is also probably considered one of the greatest and most athletic athletes of all time. But over time every athlete has to deal with the aging of their body and the fact that they will no longer be as good as they once were... except LeBron James. LeBron James seems to get better and better every year. Back when LeBron first joined the NBA there wasn't much speculation about his physical abilities. He was just a kid who was considered a physical specimen. No one questioned his ability until the Miama era. LeBron gained a significant amount of muscle, had incredible recovery times, and was able to play night in and night out with little to no rest. People immediately began to speculate that he was doped. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay There are three main ways a player can improve their physical abilities: steroids, EPO (blood doping), and HGH. Most people think that steroids are the drug of choice for professional athletes and they also think that steroids are only used to increase their brute strength. But steroids and peds (performance enhancing drugs) in the basketball world help with recovery time, fat loss, healing after injury, maintaining high energy levels and increasing stamina. They can still make you stronger, but speaking in the context of basketball that's probably the last reason players would take them. In Miami LeBron has become more than just a freak of nature, indeed he has become suspiciously inhuman. He gained 25 pounds of pure muscle and looked like he was playing at a new level, beyond the fact that he only missed 14 games in four seasons with Miami. This is when people started to get even more suspicious. While his teammates and classmates were starting to slow down, Lebron was getting faster. In one game LeBron rolled his ankle and came back in the next game as if nothing had happened. People noticed these things. Some of the side effects of HGH are muscle gain, hair loss, and cramps. LeBron showed signs of all of these and the NBA knew it needed to look into the matter. In 2013, an investigation into a steroid clinic in Miami found that a man with the last name Paul came in to pick up products for a man with the initials LJ. LeBron James' initials are LJ and his agent's name is Rich Paul. This was also a clinic linked to numerous MLB, NBA and NFL players who were caught using steroids. There was also a lady who worked at the clinic who reported that some of her colleagues were 100% sure that LJ was LeBron James. But all this was just speculation. This wasn't even the most suspicious PED-related event in LeBron's career. In 2014, when LeBron rejoined the Cavaliers, people noticed that LeBron didn't look or play like he had in recent years. LeBron had lost a lot of weight and said he felt better than ever, but early in the season people could see he wasn't the same athlete. He wasn't as explosive or strong as he was just a season earlier. I guess this seems normal because as you age you slow down as an athlete, but it just so happens that around the same time the NBA was pushing to reform its testing for steroids and PEDs. There is speculation that LeBron was fasting to rid his system of all those performance-enhancing drugs he had been taking in recent years. In the midst of that season, while the Cavaliers were struggling, LeBron?