FIBA Suspends Basketball Player D.J. Cooper After Drug Test Shows He Is Pregnant

Basketball Player D.J. Cooper Suspended After Drug Test Showed He Was Pregnant
D.J Cooper

A new report has revealed that American basketball player was handed a two-year suspension by The International Basketball Federation (FIBA). This happened in 2018 after a drug test showed that he was pregnant.

Eurohoops reports that the basketball player Donell ‘D.J’ Cooper got a two-year-long suspension after a drug test done by the governing body revealed that he was pregnant.

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Cooper at the time was looking to join the Bosnian national team before he and had to be tested and when the result of the test came out, he tested positive for human chorionic gonadotropin. It was later revealed that the urine was from Cooper’s pregnant girlfriend, who did not know she was with a child then.