NBA: décès de Jason Collins à 47 ans, premier joueur à avoir fait son coming-out
Former American basketball player Jason Collins, who in 2014 became the first athlete in a major US league to come out as gay, died at the age of 47, the NBA and his family announced Tuesday.
Collins died "after a valiant battle against a glioblastoma," a brain tumor, his family wrote in a statement.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver paid tribute to Collins and "his influence far beyond basketball," noting that he helped "the NBA, WNBA, and the wider sports community become more inclusive and welcoming to future generations."
Collins, who retired in November 2014, came out as gay in an article published by Sports Illustrated in April 2013. "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm Black and I'm gay," he wrote. "I didn't set out to be the first athlete in a major American sport to reveal my homosexuality. But now that I have, I'm glad to start the conversation."
He was without a club at the time but later joined the Brooklyn Nets, becoming the first openly gay player to participate in a major league game in the United States (NBA basketball, NHL hockey, NFL football and MLB baseball).
The former center spent thirteen seasons on NBA courts, including eight with the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets. He also played for Atlanta, Boston, Memphis, Minnesota, and Washington, for a total of 735 games.
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