Pro Basketball Player’s Drug Test Revealed He Was Pregnant
The International Basketball Federation banned Donell Cooper Jr for two years for fraud after his urine sample found him to be pregnant.
Cooper, a Chicago native got drafted to the pro league in Europe and for the most part was successful. Things got weird when Cooper suddenly announced in September 2018 that he would leave the Monaco basketball team for “family reasons”. The organization recently revealed what the “family reasons” were. Cooper had applied for Bosnian citizenship in 2014 and was looking to join the national basketball team as a naturalised player. To do that he had to take a drug test. His urine sample revealed unusually high levels of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin hormone commonly produced by cells in the placenta during pregnancy. A Slovenia national broadcaster reported that Cooper submitted his girlfriend’s sample to the drug test. The league suspended Cooper on the spot and he won’t be cleared to play again until 2020.
