Addiction can be a career killer in the world of professional sports, but it's usually a problem of being addicted to alcohol or even drugs. What about soda? Specifically Mountain Dew.

In a recent blog entry by the Washington Wizards' Caron Butler, he discussed an addiction to the green colored soda, which he had given up in the off-season.

He says it was a really bad problem.

"It was so bad, at one point, that I had to have a cold one right there at the nightstand before I went to bed," Butler wrote. "I had to get the coasters and let it drip a lil' bit and just have it waiting on me. Come 2 a.m.., I'd wake up out of my sleep, I'd pop one open and hear the fizz sound ... and just down it!

"Then I always had to have another one in the morning when I woke up. Before practice I had one, too, and before games I would knock back two," he continued.

Thanks to the sacrifice, Butler said he was able shed 11 pounds. But, admits it wasn't the easiest thing he's ever done.

"To try and give this up was CRAZY for me! I was going through withdrawals," Butler explained. "I was in the bed sweating. My wife would turn over in the bed and ask, 'Are you okay?' Honestly, those first two weeks without the Dew was the roughest two weeks of my life. I'm talking headaches, sweats and everything. Before that, I drank at least six 12-ounce Mountain Dews a day."

Wow, that's an addiction. At least, it wasn't something worse, right Caron?

Read his entire blog post over at NBA.com.