And then the article continues on ad nauseam doing exactly that.
He should go get a pick up game with Obama and Reggie Love.
“Or is there something more sinister at work”
Yes, those 2000 year old apprehensions of indecency are so sinister. I can imagine a James Bond movie where 007 faces off against the homophobic NBA officials who won’t sign this poor guy.
/sarc
Or is there something more sinister at work related to the new role he would play? sinister? Sinister?? because nobody wants a filthy queer on their team it's SINISTER???
go 0bama yourself...
May favorite part of the Slimes article.
“Another advocate for gay athletes, Hudson Taylor, the executive director of Athlete Ally, wrote in an e-mail: “The decision to sign him rests with individual team owners. One of them has to step up.”
Now somebody HAS to sign crappy players just to indulge delusions that sodomy doesn’t rub most people the wrong way. This entire agenda seems to be predicated upon erecting a fantasy land.
It sounds like the “openly gay” NBA lifestyle isn’t working out for Joyce. “In Your Face” bull**** does tend to grate on normal people’s nerves.
Jason Collins is a fourth-rate, bench-warming, garbage-time mop-up scrub.
That’s why he’s without a team.
Amazing that all but a couple of the commenters saw through the PC hype... even in the New York Times... and called him what he was: a mediocre-at-his-best center who was way, way, way past his prime. “Two baskets a game for someone who stands under the basket?”
well Collins maybe you should have kept your filthy trap shut
It sounds like he isn’t a professional basketball player any more.
Poor quality player that only came out in hopes some team would pick him up for the gayfirmative action.
Sorry Jason, the NBA still counts play quality over political points.
34-year-olds with poor skills, who never were very good, don’t get signed much. If he thought his “Look at me! I’m gay!” ploy would get him a contract, in spite of his diminishing meager skills—well, it isn’t working.
So why won’t the wnba sign him?
Obama us hiring navigators.
He just needs to find a “gayer team” that needs a mediocre to poor player that can build a large queer following for the team. Shouldn’t be too hard ... maybe something in SF, NYC or another queer friendly city that could possibly mandate the formation of a rainbow franchise.
There is nothing sinister about NBA teams not wanting to deal with the media circus that would ensue should a team sign him to a contract.
He was going to try out for football and couln’t really kick that well so the ONLY thing left was Tight End and he didn’t make it because his wasn’t.
Reminds me of the old ‘Tank McNamara’(?) cartoon strip that had a Black Basketball player who was mediocre at best, who white washed himself because he figured that he ‘stunk’ as a Black player, he would be pretty decent as a White player.
He wasn’t going to be signed by anyone before his little stunt. Nobody outside of his immediate family and the local bath house even knew the dude’s name.
Now I guess he’ll cry discrimination and sue the NBA.
He suck privatly and professionally, don’t hold your breath