A FIBA Player Failed A Drug Test In The Most Spectacular Way
Drug tests in professional sports seem like they wouldn’t be a big deal for people getting paid to play a game. Sometimes they’re hard though. Just ask Josh Gordon. I’m sure every year plenty of players cheat on their drug tests and I’m sure nearly every team turns a blind eye. Some guys can’t lay off the weed, some love to blow lines of coke with hookers, and some guys just juice up to get a competitive edge. Then there’s D.J. Cooper from AS Monaco who was drug tested while trying to join the Bosnian national team.
Cooper, a former guard for Ohio University, tested positive for something a bit different. I’m sure the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin, hCG, threw the drug screeners off quite a bit. You see, hCG is a hormone made by the placenta when YOU’RE PREGNANT!
Get out of town! My man tested positive for a baby in his belly!
No this isn’t some 2019 “the world is changing” headline, this dude got his girlfriend to take the piss test for him. That’s a hell of a way to find out your girl is pregnant. Congrats! You’re gonna be a dad, by the way, you’re suspended from FIBA for 2-years.
FIBA officially suspended Cooper for fraud. The news coming from Cooper’s camp is that he has temporarily stepped away from basketball for “family reasons”.
This sounds like it could be an Onion article but there’s a whole wide world of sports out there, look hard enough and there’s always something crazy going on.
-Dillon Leary