NBA Playoff Thread

[TruffleShuffle]

Man, after Googling him, I realized where I remembered Ben Shapiro from. Dude created quite the controversy at UCLA with idiotic/racist comments about Muslims and was pissed the school paper wouldn't print them.

 

he was also the guy who was taken in by the "friends of hamas" thing.

 

on the bright side, he's spent time at breitbart.com and world net daily, so he's at least finding the proper landing places for a bigot/homophobe.

[TruffleShuffle]

I go to school with Magic Johnson's son, who knows Steph Curry and says he has sexual encounters with the same man every time he visits the city. How many of the players on the Warriors know Curry is gay?

 

the better question is whether steph curry's wife knows he's gay.

[Banedon]

@Dustinpenner25:

2013-04-30 02:27

Honestly I don't care if you are gay or straight as my teammate. As long as you don't listen to Nickelback. #courage

[Old Style]

personally, i've had a couple of gay black friends and neither of them had any straight black friends, so i might agree with that perception.

 

I have a black gay co worker who hates black people

Used to work with a guy who was the same way.

[Exile on Waveland]

Matt Binder puts together a tumblr of public shaming of idiots posting bigotry and idiocy on twitter in response to big events. Here's his latest from Tim Brando.

 

http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/49229412239/tim-brando-and-me-we-come-from-different-worlds-he

 

perfect example of some bigoted idiot letting his mask slip when he writes "it's a choice." aha, now we get it.

 

Yuuuup. Figured he was a homophobe with the semantic haggling about "hero," and he want ahead and, ahem, outted himself.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

@DamienFahey

Now that gay people are allowed to play basketball, what's next?! Dogs playing basketball?! Because HOLY [expletive] that'd be ADORABLE.

 

@michelleisawolf

This whole Jason Collins thing has really made me question my belief that basketball is between a man and a different woman every night.

 

@ChaseMit

I'm more surprised that Jason Collins openly plays for the Washington Wizards.

[biittner77]

if i'd had to guess which of the four major sports would have an active athlete come out first, i probably would have guessed hockey. pretty sure basketball would've been my last guess, due to the smaller roster size and high numbers of black american athletes.

 

Why hockey? I don't follow the sport so I'm actually curious.

 

Because hockey is awesome, that's why.

 

The NHL just announced a partnership with an advocacy campaign called "You can play" which is aimed at tolerance of openly gay athletes. Duncan Keith of the Blackhawks among others have made ads for this campaign. I'm a little surprised that even hockey fans here hadn't heard of this before. When they made the announcement, someone (forget who, IIRC he was the son of a former coach) was counselling 4 current NHL players in hopes that they would all come out publicly at the same time to take pressure off any one of them being the first.

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/04/11/nhl_announces_lgbt_rights_partnership_with_you_can_play_to_support_gay_athletes.html

[SouthSideRyan]

Didn't a couple of the Hawks appear the Pride parade the year they won the Cup?

[jersey cubs fan]

Didn't a couple of the Hawks appear the Pride parade the year they won the Cup?

 

Brent Sopel led that effort, and I believe was the only participant. Although Kaner probably stumbled by drunk at some point.

 

 

Hockey has been big into the gay rights story ever since Brendon Burke died.

[SABR Gamer]

I go to school with Magic Johnson's son, who knows Steph Curry and says he has sexual encounters with the same man every time he visits the city. How many of the players on the Warriors know Curry is gay?

 

the better question is whether steph curry's wife knows he's gay.

 

 

I would assume beards are pretty common for gay athletes. The source isn't flawless, but I know he knows the guy and I don't think that would be something he would lie about.

 

I don't think him having a wife is definitive proof that he's not gay.

[jersey cubs fan]

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/4/30/4285808/tim-brando-chris-broussard-jason-collins-out

 

For someone out there, he is leading. Debate whether he's a hero or not in your world, but he's leading by example for a small subset of people who need examples, and doing so positively: with love, and work, and still more work. The two are ultimately indistinguishable when done right, and what they leave behind is the capacity to pass that work forward. I know what Jason Collins is doing, and has done, will be the work of life. I don't know what people like Broussard and Brando are doing. It might be leading, but it requires neither work nor love by any definition of either.

 

This is a story about giving credit where it is due. No one ever said it had to mean the good kind.

[TruffleShuffle]

I would assume beards are pretty common for gay athletes. The source isn't flawless, but I know he knows the guy and I don't think that would be something he would lie about.

 

I don't think him having a wife is definitive proof that he's not gay.

 

i also don't think that it's a great idea to be spreading a rumor that a married man with a child is gay.

[WrigleyField 22]

@DamienFahey

Now that gay people are allowed to play basketball, what's next?! Dogs playing basketball?! Because HOLY [expletive] that'd be ADORABLE.

 

@michelleisawolf

This whole Jason Collins thing has really made me question my belief that basketball is between a man and a different woman every night.

 

@ChaseMit

I'm more surprised that Jason Collins openly plays for the Washington Wizards.

Awesome

 

 

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[SABR Gamer]

I would assume beards are pretty common for gay athletes. The source isn't flawless, but I know he knows the guy and I don't think that would be something he would lie about.

 

I don't think him having a wife is definitive proof that he's not gay.

 

i also don't think that it's a great idea to be spreading a rumor that a married man with a child is gay.

 

Passing on something relevant to the discussion, that I heard from his friend, to a Cubs message board is hardly some sort of malicious rumor spreading. It doesn't even matter about Curry or not, say player X instead if it makes you feel better.

 

This isn't me going to ESPN, and you are just being aggressive towards me because you are seemingly offended by the idea that someone who was married with a child could be gay. Instead of actually responding to the question I brought up, you fixate on an example I used to point out that homosexuality among athletes is probably a lot more common than people realize.

 

I am still curious how often players know that a teammate is gay, because I wonder how much of this is made into a bigger issue than it would be otherwise by the media.

 

ETA: I have no intention of arguing or having truffle act like he's the morality police, so if anyone is offended by speciation of an NBA player being gay then feel free to delete that post to end the "rumor spreading" that I'm doing...lol smh.

[seanimal]

if i'd had to guess which of the four major sports would have an active athlete come out first, i probably would have guessed hockey. pretty sure basketball would've been my last guess, due to the smaller roster size and high numbers of black american athletes.

 

Why hockey? I don't follow the sport so I'm actually curious.

 

Probably because hockey is the only of the big 4 pro sports leagues in the US to work to create a culture of inclusion. I was unaware of some of these details, but Bernstein outlines some of the efforts quite nicely in his article today...

 

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/01/bernstein-gay-affirming-nhl-way-ahead-of-the-game/

[illiniguy]

I would assume beards are pretty common for gay athletes. The source isn't flawless, but I know he knows the guy and I don't think that would be something he would lie about.

 

I don't think him having a wife is definitive proof that he's not gay.

 

i also don't think that it's a great idea to be spreading a rumor that a married man with a child is gay.

 

Passing on something relevant to the discussion, that I heard from his friend, to a Cubs message board is hardly some sort of malicious rumor spreading. It doesn't even matter about Curry or not, say player X instead if it makes you feel better.

 

This isn't me going to ESPN, and you are just being aggressive towards me because you are seemingly offended by the idea that someone who was married with a child could be gay. Instead of actually responding to the question I brought up, you fixate on an example I used to point out that homosexuality among athletes is probably a lot more common than people realize.

 

I am still curious how often players know that a teammate is gay, because I wonder how much of this is made into a bigger issue than it would be otherwise by the media.

 

ETA: I have no intention of arguing or having truffle act like he's the morality police, so if anyone is offended by speciation of an NBA player being gay then feel free to delete that post to end the "rumor spreading" that I'm doing...lol smh.

To kind of answer your question, I knew of one guy who played major college basketball with a former NBA all star and the star was out to the team, but not the public. Fwliw.

[imb]

I would assume beards are pretty common for gay athletes. The source isn't flawless, but I know he knows the guy and I don't think that would be something he would lie about.

 

I don't think him having a wife is definitive proof that he's not gay.

 

i also don't think that it's a great idea to be spreading a rumor that a married man with a child is gay.

 

Passing on something relevant to the discussion, that I heard from his friend, to a Cubs message board is hardly some sort of malicious rumor spreading. It doesn't even matter about Curry or not, say player X instead if it makes you feel better.

 

This isn't me going to ESPN, and you are just being aggressive towards me because you are seemingly offended by the idea that someone who was married with a child could be gay. Instead of actually responding to the question I brought up, you fixate on an example I used to point out that homosexuality among athletes is probably a lot more common than people realize.

 

I am still curious how often players know that a teammate is gay, because I wonder how much of this is made into a bigger issue than it would be otherwise by the media.

 

ETA: I have no intention of arguing or having truffle act like he's the morality police, so if anyone is offended by speciation of an NBA player being gay then feel free to delete that post to end the "rumor spreading" that I'm doing...lol smh.

To kind of answer your question, I knew of one guy who played major college basketball with a former NBA all star and the star was out to the team, but not the public. Fwliw.

 

I know who it is

[Vanilla Ice]

hahaha

[Sammy Sofa]

if i'd had to guess which of the four major sports would have an active athlete come out first, i probably would have guessed hockey. pretty sure basketball would've been my last guess, due to the smaller roster size and high numbers of black american athletes.

 

Why hockey? I don't follow the sport so I'm actually curious.

 

Probably because hockey is the only of the big 4 pro sports leagues in the US to work to create a culture of inclusion. I was unaware of some of these details, but Bernstein outlines some of the efforts quite nicely in his article today...

 

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/01/bernstein-gay-affirming-nhl-way-ahead-of-the-game/

 

[expletive], that's really great. Kudos to that godforsaken sport.

[Magnetic Curses]

hockey is the future. get behind it or die

[Sammy Sofa]

I will happily get behind it and watch it speed blindly off of a cliff to a fiery death.

[imb]

I will happily get behind it and watch it speed blindly off of a cliff to a fiery death.

 

i bet youll get behind it

[PosterToBeNamedLater]

I will happily get behind it and watch it speed blindly off of a cliff to a fiery death.

 

i bet youll get behind it

Oh Yahh... he'll get behind it alright.

http://abporter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/gay-couple-from-maine.png

 

http://www.hulu.com/watch/423751

[Banedon]

The Double Flop

 

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/article/media_slots/photos/000/841/691/ThunderFall_original.gif?1367461962

[Exile on Waveland]

At least OKC has Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb.