The Brooklyn Nets active Jason Collins to a 10-day arrangement on Sunday, authoritative him the aboriginal aboveboard gay amateur to play in any of North America's four above able sports leagues, ESPN reports.
Collins came out endure April in an commodity he wrote for Sports Illustrated, in which he discussed active a bifold activity during the 12 years he had already spent in the NBA. "I ambition I wasn't the kid in the classroom adopting his duke and saying, 'I'm different,'" Collins wrote. "If I had my way, anyone abroad would accept already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm adopting my hand."
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At the time he came out, Collins was a chargeless agent, accepting just accomplished a division with the Washington Wizards. The 35-year-old centermost spent the aboriginal six and a bisected seasons of his career with the Nets, and has aswell played for the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics.
"The accommodation to assurance Jason was a basketball decision," Nets accepted administrator Billy King said in a account to ESPN. "We bare to access our abyss inside, and with his acquaintance and size, we acquainted he was the appropriate best for a 10-day contract."
"Jason told us that his ambition was to acquire addition arrangement with an NBA team," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. "Today, I wish to acclaim him on accomplishing his goal. I apperceive anybody in the NBA ancestors is aflame for him and appreciative that our alliance fosters an across-the-board and admiring environment."
Collins' signing marks a above anniversary for the NBA, and the mural of American able sports does assume to authoritative its way against a added across-the-board culture. Michael Sam, the all-American arresting lineman at the University of Missouri who announced that he is aboveboard gay beforehand this month, is acceptable to be best in the N.F.L. abstract in May.
Collins will be in compatible tonight as the Nets face the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center.
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