D.J. Cooper playing for Ohio during his college career in the US. Photo / Getty
An American basketball player plying his trade in Europe has been banned from the game after a drug test concluded that he was pregnant.
Donell 'DJ' Cooper, had been playing in Europe since missing out on the NBA draft and had played in Greece and France.
Cooper left AS Monaco
in 2018 for "family reasons" and those reasons have been brought into the spotlight by the revelation that he failed a drug test.
Looking to join the Bosnian national team as a naturalised player, Cooper needed to take a drug test as part of the formalities.
Officials found that the sample he provided contained human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, a hormone produced during pregnancy.
