First openly gay nba player

Last Updated: May 27, In MayCollins revealed he is gay in a first-person essay in Sports Illustrated. I'm Black. And I'm gay," he wrote. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. Before his revelation, the seven-foot, pound big man was primarily known as a solid defender and rebounder and the identical twin brother of NBA veteran Jarron Collins.

Collins, unsigned through the first half of the season, got an opportunity with the Nets after Brooklyn made a trade to open a roster spot. He had played with the Nets for the first seven years of his NBA career. The reception for Collins, who played collegiately at Stanford, was mostly positive.

Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on February 23rd. Baron von Steuben, as he is better known, was the son of a […].

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Allen Pinkerton, head of a private detective agency, had uncovered a plot to assassinate Lincoln when he passed […]. Du Bois is born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois would become a brilliant scholar, an influential proponent of civil rights and a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

On February 23,a year-old man named John Lee is sent to the gallows in Exeter, England, for the murder of Emma Keyse, a rich older woman for whom he had worked. Although he insisted he was innocent, Lee had been convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. However, after the noose was put […].

Born in Gay, Oklahoma, inGuthrie lived and wrote of the American West, a place of hard-working people and harsh environments rather than romantic cowboys and explorers. While Woody […]. First the Nba of Iwo Jima, U. Marines from the 28th Regiment of the 5th Division raise the U. On February 23,a group of children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receive the first injections of the new polio vaccine developed by Dr.

Jonas Salk. Thanks to the vaccine, by the 21st century polio cases were openly by 99 percent worldwide. Though not as devastating as the plague or influenza, poliomyelitis […]. Fangio was taken from his Havana hotel the day before the Cuba Grand Prix, an event intended to showcase the island nation. He was released unharmed several hours after the race.

Other […]. On February 23,speed skater Eric Heiden wins the 10,meter race at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, setting a player record with his time and winning an unprecedented fifth gold medal at the games.