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Contents:

• TIM HARDAWAY BLASTED GAYS 2007. NOW HE SAYS ’S KEEPG HIM OUT OF THE HALL OF FAME.
• TIM HARDAWAY SAYS HIS ANTI-GAY MENTS OM 2007 ARE KEEPG HIM OUT OF HALL OF FAME
• WHEN TIM HARDAWAY SR. MA C HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS AND LATER HAD TO PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE FOR : "I HATE GAY PEOPLE, SO I LET BE KNOWN"
• HARDAWAY: ANTI-GAY RANT KEEPS ME OUT OF HALL
• TIM HARDAWAY’S ANTI-GAY MENTS SHOULDN’T KEEP HIM OUT OF THE HALL OF FAME
• TIM HARDAWAY SAYS: 'I HATE GAY PEOPLE'
• TIM HARDAWAY APOLOGIZ FOR HIS ‘I HATE GAY PEOPLE’ MENTS OM 15 YEARS AGO: ‘I WAS JT TGHT DIFFERENTLY’
• ‘IT WAS SO WRONG OF ME’: HEAT IN TIM HARDAWAY SPEAKS OUT ON ‘I HATE GAY PEOPLE’ MENT OM 15 YEARS AGO
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

TIM HARDAWAY BLASTED GAYS 2007. NOW HE SAYS ’S KEEPG HIM OUT OF THE HALL OF FAME.

“The reason I’m not is bee of what I said 2007 about gay people, ” Hardaway asserted an terview wh Alex Kennedy of HoopsHype.

”Hardaway was referrg to ments he ma that year after former NBA player John Amaechi me out as gay. “Well, you know, I hate gay people, so I let be known, ” Hardaway said at the time on a rad show hosted by ESPN’s Dan Le Batard. “I don’t like gay people, and I don’t like to be around gay people.

TIM HARDAWAY SAYS HIS ANTI-GAY MENTS OM 2007 ARE KEEPG HIM OUT OF HALL OF FAME

"I am homophobic. ” He proceed to take steps to do jt that, cludg gog 2011 to El Paso, where he was a standout at UTEP, to support efforts by the cy’s mayor to offer domtic partnership benefs for gay and unmarried upl.

Shortly before dog that, he ma a pot of llg Jason Colls wh a msage of support after the latter me out as the first openly gay active male player major U. “I’m tryg to do what’s right, supportg gay people and transgenr people.

WHEN TIM HARDAWAY SR. MA C HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS AND LATER HAD TO PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE FOR : "I HATE GAY PEOPLE, SO I LET BE KNOWN"

“The reason I’m not is bee of what I said 2007 about gay people, ” Hardaway told HoopsHype an terview that was published Tuday. “You know, I hate gay people, so I let be known, ” Hardaway said on Feb.

“I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic.

I’m tryg to do what’s right, supportg gay people and transgenr people. ”In 2011, the former UTEP standout returned to El Paso to support the mayor’s proposal for domtic partnership benefs for gay and unmarried upl.

HARDAWAY: ANTI-GAY RANT KEEPS ME OUT OF HALL

Two years later, he was the first to sign a petn mandg the legalizatn of gay marriage Florida. He also lled then-NBA-player Jason Colls to give his support after Colls 2013 beme the first openly gay active male athlete a major U. Shockgly ma some anti-gay ments that ed him to receive a ton of flak.

Hardaway was already four years to his retirement when he spoke to Dan LeBatard on “790 The Ticket” about his views on gay people:. "You know, I hate gay people, so I let be known.

I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people.

TIM HARDAWAY’S ANTI-GAY MENTS SHOULDN’T KEEP HIM OUT OF THE HALL OF FAME

Tim Hardaway ed even more ntroversy when asked to ment about John Amaechi, a former NBA player who admted he was gay. Amaechi revealed he was gay a week before Hardaway’s fiery ments.

TIM HARDAWAY SAYS: 'I HATE GAY PEOPLE'

He publicly apologized for his anti-homophobic stance:. "I grew up a church, and that's the way church were -- they stilled you that [homosexualy] wasn't the way you should be.

Tim Hardaway was nvced he wasn’t selected earlier to the Naismh Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame bee of his anti-gay ments 2007.

TIM HARDAWAY APOLOGIZ FOR HIS ‘I HATE GAY PEOPLE’ MENTS OM 15 YEARS AGO: ‘I WAS JT TGHT DIFFERENTLY’

His ments about gay people, however, may have put an asterisk on his name that kept voters om enshrg him the Hall of Fame. "I’m not the Hall of Fame bee of what I said about gay people.

Former NBA profsnal basketball player Tim Hardaway exprsed remorse for ments he ma 2007 where he clared he was "homophobic" and hated gay people. "I grew up a church, and that's the way church were -- they stilled you that [homosexualy] wasn't the way you should be, " Hardaway told Kroichick and the Chronicle.

‘IT WAS SO WRONG OF ME’: HEAT IN TIM HARDAWAY SPEAKS OUT ON ‘I HATE GAY PEOPLE’ MENT OM 15 YEARS AGO

1661801419Hardaway ma the origal homophobic ments durg a 2007 terview on The Dan Le Batard Show rponse to a qutn about how he would handle havg a gay player as a teammate. ""You know that what you're sayg there, though, Timmy is flatly homophobic, right? "Well, you know, I hate gay people, " Hardaway rpond at the time.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

I don't like gay people.

I don't like to be around gay people. Yeah, I'm homophobic. He thks he knows why he hasn't joed them: his well-publicized rant om more than a ago, which he said he hated gay people.

Mull and Richmond are both the Hardaway Q&A: 'I'm not the Hall of Fame bee of what I said about gay people' — HoopsHype (@hoopshype) March 27, 2019. "You know, I hate gay people, so I let be known, " Hardaway told Dan Le Batard on Miami rad 2007.