The Only 3 Out, Gay NBA Players In History - Sports Nostalgia HQ

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• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
• A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
• IS NBA YOUNGBOY GAY? CHIGO RAPPER MAK SHOCKG ALLEGATN ABOUT IYANNA MAYWEATHER'S BOYIEND
• CLIPPERS FEATURE TWO GAY UPL ON PRI NIGHT KISS CAM
• THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
• THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• ‘RIVERDALE’ STAR KERR SMH ON TV’S FIRST GAY KISS: ‘IT WAS TENSE’
• ESPN'S FIRST GAY KISS WAS OF PRO BOWLER STT NORTON
• NBA STAR COM OUT WH BIG GAY KISS ON BASKETBALL SOAP ‘H THE FLOOR’ – WATCH
• FORMER JAZZMAN RUDY GAY HAS INTERT FROM ‘SEVERAL’ COMPETIVE TEAMS

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

NBA Rumors: Jam Harn tra talks, Joel Embiid, PJ Tucker, Rudy Gay, Lakers, Warrrs, Bucks, more. Below is the latt tel gathered by HoopsHype on the Harn tra talks and how they uld affect Joel Embiid and PJ Tucker, ee agency updat on Rudy Gay, Edmond Sumner, and Nerlens Noel, along wh not on the Lakers, Warrrs, Bucks, Mavericks, and more on HoopsHype.

Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype. Gay was healthy last season m a fger jot spra that siled him for two weeks and a member of Utah’s rotatn through most of last season.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

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“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

IS NBA YOUNGBOY GAY? CHIGO RAPPER MAK SHOCKG ALLEGATN ABOUT IYANNA MAYWEATHER'S BOYIEND

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

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Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Lakers are among several teams who uld potentially have tert Rudy Gay. Perhaps this is a role and avenue that Gay n also provi value like he did for a young Jazz team. While his on-urt productn certaly isn't where ed to be at this stage of his reer, Gay still do posss the reque size and strength to pete.

Standg at 6’8” and sportg a 7’3” wgspan, Gay has the exact type of proportns the Lakers lacked their seri agast the Denver Nuggets particular. Dpe the limatns and drop-offs that e wh age, there is potentially a role for Gay somewhere the league as he has proved to still be a steady ntributor when given the chance.

9 pots better than their opponents wh Gay on the floor (1689 posssns) this season acrdg to Cleang the Glass. While remas to be see if that role is found Los Angel for Gay, probably behoov the Lakers to look elsewhere to fill what is an obv need or at least swg for upsi wh a younger player. When John Amaechi me out publicly 2007, he was ahead of his time, sharg that he’s gay and a former profsnal basketball player.

THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY

Sce Colls showed the world you uld be a gay man profsnal basketball, there has been a trickle of gay athlet to follow, most recently former NBA player and current Atralian pro basketball player Isaac Humphri. The ments are among 78 tweets om 36 current and active NBA players on teams that are homophobic language, nature or even tent (four other players were on a roster when the list was piled last month, but they are no longer on an NBA team).

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The players clu CJ McCollum, the print of the Natnal Basketball Players Assn., who tweeted “no homo, ” as well as superstar Kev Durant, who tweeted “shut up fag boy. “I don’t re how long ago was, shows the person’s character, my opn, ” said Derrick Gordon, who me out publicly as gay while playg basketball at UMass and who now plays profsnally Germany.

“It was shockg but not surprisg, ” Chris said of the number of homophobic tweets he found.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

“The culture of homophobia sports ns very ep, pecially a hyper-mascule league like the NBA. Beg a big NBA fan, Chris cid to check the acunts of some of his favore players and found var homophobic tweets.

From his rearch: “Fag” showed up 29 tweets, “gay” 40 (and not plimentary), and the phrase “no homo” 17.

‘RIVERDALE’ STAR KERR SMH ON TV’S FIRST GAY KISS: ‘IT WAS TENSE’

The Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz each have four players on the list of NBA athlet who created anti-gay tweets, while the Chigo Bulls currently have three players who tweeted homophobic msag. Not cintally, Jason Colls beme the first active NBA player to e out as gay 2013, raisg signifint awarens of LGBTQ issu — and the prence of gay players — the NBA.

For example, Durant 2013 voiced his support of Colls, but he also ma graphilly homophobic ments 2021. “Culture as a whole has changed, ” said Anthony Nimo, a succsful high school basketball ach New York who me out publicly as gay several years ago.

ESPN'S FIRST GAY KISS WAS OF PRO BOWLER STT NORTON

Colls — who played as an openly gay player the last uple regular-season months and then playoffs of the 2013-14 season — has been speakg to NBA rooki at the league’s annual symposium sce 2015. Readg [the tweets] remd me a lot of my journal that I kept, and I stopped after two weeks, bee was jt … you hear , but you don’t really realize how much sual homophobia there was.

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Speakg om my experience, there is a disnnect sometim between someone who sual homophobia, and then once you show them who you are, they will step up and have your back. Oshae Brissett of the Indiana Pacers, now 23, was 12 and 13 when he posted ne homophobic tweets a two-year span.

One mon slur ed var tweets was “no homo, ” which me to vogue over 10 years ago as a way for a man to pliment another man whout beg taken “the wrong way.

“‘No homo’ as a phrase promot a negative nnotatn regards to gay men, as if we are ls-than, ” Chris said. As a ach and tor, Nimo said he still hears “no homo” around teenagers — even beg out as a gay man — though the culture basketball has improved.

FORMER JAZZMAN RUDY GAY HAS INTERT FROM ‘SEVERAL’ COMPETIVE TEAMS

“Kids today sometim say ‘no homo’ or somethg like that, but there has unqutnably been a shift, ” he said. “If someone talks about puttg a bullet someone’s head, that’s beyond ‘I hate gay people, ’” Nimo said.