Given his well documented clean lifestyle, O’Neal was baffled by the results. After some investigation, it turned out that the poppyseeds were the source of the positive drug test. “They did the research and the poppyseed muffins had the same derivatives as cocaine,” O’Neal explained.

Shaquille O’Neal recently recalled an unexpected story about a false positive cocaine test during the 1996 Olympics

Shaquille O'Neal told the story of how he accidentally tested positive for cocaine ahead of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Shaquille O'Neal revealed that he tested positive for cocaine in an Olympic drug test in 1996 because of a snack that he ate. The legendary basketball player and co-host of Inside the NBA spoke on the show about the Bobby Portis scandal-where he accidentally took medication for severe pain and subsequently tested positive for a banned substance-and opened up about his own experience failing a drug test.