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I wish, then I'd be loaded.
“I can’t put it into words,” he said. “Playing with a guy, living with a guy, just knowing that every day when I wake up that’s something I can count on, that I’m going to be in practice or in a game with Cuttino.
“Him not being here is going to be tough for me. I don’t know what I’m going to wake up for.”
I wish, then I'd be loaded.
It really is ironic that he let his sexuality out in Utah of all places. I wonder if this will open the doors for other gay athletes such as Richard Jefferson, Ron Artest (anger has to come from somewhere) and Tony Parker, who will finally admit the Eva thing is just a sham so I can marry her.
Where can I read that list? Who are top 3?Amaechi's sexuality has been rumored for years. In an April 2001 column for Outsports, NBA columnist Randy Boyd named Amaechi, then playing with the Orlando Magic, as No. 16 among those in the NBA most likely to be gay.
All I found was this:
http://www.outsports.com/ballin/022601.htm
That outsports website is kind of funny. Lots of speculation and stories you don't hear much about because... well... they're gay.
Thanks. Hmm, the first part where he talks about 1 in 10 is wrong actually. The year 1938 seems correct, but I've read an article that says that survey was not good, the actual frequency is LOWER, not higher. One in 20 seems more correct.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...PG15O053Q1.DTL
Here is another article about John Amaechi.
1 in 10 is from Kinsey's studies, and has been replicated since. But this is simply a measure of the number of people who openly admit to having had sex with someone of the same gender in their lifetime. That doesn't mean all those people identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual (many straight identified people have had sex with people of the same gender) nor does it take into account people who won't openly admit to having had sex with people of the same gender.
This thread is soooooooo gay.
As I said, I've read studies that claim otherwise - 1 in 20. It is enough to take into account all studies that were done all over the world in last 50 years. One in ten is like the top result, all other are lower (ok, I think I've seen one other study with 12-13%, but that's it).
I found this one too:
more speculation
Tim Duncan's #9.
wow, i've never seen somebodys credibility fly out the window so quick. you're right, all angry males must be gay?
I just needed to pick a third one for continuity's sake. He wasn't feeding his dog and it got taken away, so I figured it's cause he was busy with his boyfriend.wow, i've never seen somebodys credibility fly out the window so quick. you're right, all angry males must be gay?
Yeah, the first clue should have been a center who played in the league five years and had a career-high 10 rebounds.
Seriously though, John Amaechi is one of the last NBA players in recent history that you'd want representing your group. This is a guy who played just well enough to get a long-term contract ... and then just stopped trying, stopped working out and ate himself out of the league.
He should be a role model for no one, except maybe used car salesmen and personal injury lawyers.
He was great in Trading Places, though.
but who is the New Jersey Net that is coming out?
best wishes to all
I think all NJ big 3 are gay
JayRich acts gay
Vince talks gay
and Kidd was probably turned gay by his wife
^^Dont forget about the gay twins of power,. the Collins brothers. Ones on the Nets right?
I met john amaechi and steve nash in manchester at a basketball tournament sponsored by the nba. He's a great guy. He actually played one on one with a couple guys on my team...haha
What category do overweight Euro point guards who carry man-purses fall into"?
Probably the same category that rookie point guards who lovingly embrace teammates from behind during the final moments of a le-clinching game fall into.
Hey now. whottt is still fuming about the allegation that Prince might be a switch hitter. No need to insinuate that Beno and Barry make a good backcourt duo.
This story is only interested because of the comments by players, some who didn't come across as very, uh, enlightened.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The small, exclusive club of openly gay professional male athletes has a new member.
Former NBA center John Amaechi, who spent five seasons with four teams, on Wednesday became the first NBA player to publicly come out.
His admission comes three years after his playing career ended, making him the sixth professional male athlete from one of the four major U.S. sports -- basketball, baseball, football, hockey -- to openly discuss his sexuality.
Amaechi details his life in his autobiography Man in the Middle, which will be released Feb. 14.
"He is coming out of the closet as a gay man," Amaechi's publicist Howard Bragman said.
Martina Navratilova, perhaps the most famous openly gay athlete in the world, praised Amaechi's decision and said it's imperative for athletes to come out because of what she called an epidemic of suicides among young lesbians and gays.
"It's hugely important for the kids so they don't feel alone in the world. We're role models," she said. "He will definitely help a lot of kids growing up to feel better about themselves."
Orlando's Grant Hill, who said he didn't know Amaechi when he was with the Magic, also applauded the decision to go public.
"The fact that John has done this, maybe it will give others the comfort or confidence to come out as well, whether they are playing or retiring," Hill said.
NBA commissioner David Stern said a player's sexuality wasn't important.
"We have a very diverse league. The question at the NBA is always 'Have you got game?' That's it, end of inquiry," he said.
LeBron James, however, said he didn't think an openly gay person could survive in the league.
"With teammates you have to be trustworthy, and if you're gay and you're not admitting that you are, then you are not trustworthy," James said. "So that's like the No. 1 thing as teammates -- we all trust each other. You've heard of the in-room, locker room code. What happens in the locker room stays in there. It's a trust factor, honestly. A big trust factor." (WTF, LeBron, first you said that an open gay person couldn't survive, then you criticize them for not being open?)
Injured Philadelphia Sixers forward Shavlik Randolph acknowledged it's a new situation.
"As long as you don't bring your gayness on me I'm fine," Randolph said.
News that Amaechi had come out surprised some players.
"For real? He's gay for real?" said Philadelphia center Steven Hunter. "Nowadays it's proven that people can live double lives. I watch a lot of TV, so I see a lot of sick perverted stuff about married men running around with gay guys and all types of foolishness."
Even so, Hunter said he would be fine with an openly gay teammate. (
"As long as he don't make any advances toward me I'm fine with it," he said. "As long as he came to play basketball like a man and conducted himself like a good person, I'd be fine with it."
Orlando's Pat Garrity acknowledged reaction was bound to vary throughout the league.
"They would have teammates that would accept them for being a good person and a good teammate, and there would be people who would give him a hard time about it," he said. "I think that's true if you're playing basketball or in an office job. That's just how the world is right now."
In his book, Amaechi describes the challenge of being gay in a league where it's assumed all players are heterosexual. He describes the blatant anti-gay language and at udes he experienced in NBA locker rooms.
"We're all insensitive at times. There's no taboo subject in the locker room," said Celtics coach Doc Rivers, who coached Amaechi in Orlando, where he said he had one of his strongest locker rooms. "I think if he would have come out they would have got on him jokingly. ... And I actually think that when guys do come out, when that day happens, it will make it easier."
Amaechi also writes that while playing in Utah, coach Jerry Sloan used anti-gay innuendo to describe him. Sloan said Wednesday that although his relationship with Amaechi was "shaky" because of the player's at ude, he didn't know Amaechi was gay. Sloan had no comment about Amaechi's contention that Sloan used anti-gay innuendo when referring to him. Amaechi said he found out about it in e-mails from friends in the Jazz front office.
Asked if knowing Amaechi was gay would have mattered, Sloan said: "Oh yeah, it would have probably mattered. I don't know exactly, but I always have peoples' feelings at heart. People do what they want to do. I don't have a problem with that."
Former NFL running back David Kopay came out in 1977; offensive lineman Roy Simmons and defensive lineman Esera Tuaolo came out more recently. Glenn Burke, an outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland A's in the 1970s, and Billy Bean, a utility player in the 1980s and 1990s, also have come out.
Each did so after retiring. Burke died of complications due to AIDS in 1995.
Amaechi, 36, who was raised in England, writes in the book that he never touched a basketball before the age of 17. A quick study despite being a "terrible athlete," he found his confidence in the game and made it his goal to play in the NBA.
He competed for Penn State, then played in 301 NBA games over five seasons. The 6-foot-10 center averaged 6.2 points and 2.6 rebounds. He began his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1995-96, then spent a few years playing in Europe. He rejoined the NBA to play for the Orlando Magic from 1999-01, then played two seasons for the Utah Jazz.
The Jazz traded him to Houston, which traded him to the New York Knicks. When the Knicks waived him in January 2004, he retired.
Amaechi came out of retirement to help England's men's basketball team win the silver medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.
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