Ex-NBA player John Amaechi spoke to TMZ Sports this past week regardg Bob Huggs’ ments. Amaechi me out as gay 2007.
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- PENN STATE ALUM, GAY EX-NBA PLAYER SPEAKS OUT AGAST WVU HEAD COACH BOB HUGGS
- THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
PENN STATE ALUM, GAY EX-NBA PLAYER SPEAKS OUT AGAST WVU HEAD COACH BOB HUGGS
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Today, we’re rewdg to 2007 and the story of the former pro athlete who beme the first NBA player to e out as gay: John Amaechi.
John Amaechi, a former player wh the Utah Jazz and Orlando Magic, has bee the first NBA player to e out as gay. “I am simply dog what a good person of nscience would do, which is makg people aware that gay people don’t jt look like Jack om ‘Will and Grace, ’ and that they don’t want to jump your bon every ocsn and that some are mp and some are butch and that we’re different and we’re eful and we are here. 16 among those the NBA most likely to be gay.
THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
His guaranteed ntract wh the Jazz set his md at ease, and was there that he began venturg out to gay tablishments and buildg a mostly gay circle of iends (the first wi circle of iends of his life, acrdg to the book).
“Those gmpy social nservativ who ntue to sist that gay life is lonely and unhappy have obvly never met my iends, ” Amaechi wrote.
He also acknowledg that those gay clubs like New York’s Splash and Los Angel’ Abbey who have claimed the past to have spotted him there while he was wh the Jazz may, fact, have done so. In a 2002 terview wh the Stsman newspaper, Amaechi had this to say about the subject of gays the NBA: “If you look at our league, mori aren’t very well reprented. There’s hardly any Hispanic players, no Asian-Amerins, so that there’s no openly gay players is no real surprise.