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  • JASON COLLINS: "I wish I wasn't the kid in the classrom

  • "raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.'

  • "If I had my way, someone else would have done this.

  • Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand."

  • - With Jason coming out, what would it mean for our fami?

  • How would it be received?

  • - Jason wanted to do it on his .

  • JASON: "Some people insist they've never met a gay person.

  • "But three degrees of Jason Collins dictates

  • that no NBA player can claim that anymore."

  • TERI JACKSON: Let's be honest. There's homoph.

  • It's alive and well.

  • PAUL COLLINS: We were worried about his safet.

  • His fans can be very tough.

  • JASON: "No one wants to live in fear.

  • "Some of us know and accept our sexuality right away,

  • "and some need more time to coo.

  • I should know. I baked for 33 y"

  • [crowd cheering]

  • CARLOS WATSON: The most extraordinary lives

  • follow undefined paths.

  • To find your voice, you may need to journey into th.

  • I'm Carlos Watson, editor of OZ,

  • and these are Defining Moments.

  • [knocking]

  • - Hey, Jason. Carlos. - How's it going? Hey, Carlos.

  • - Nice to meet you. Pleasure. - Welcome, welcome.

  • - Thank you for having me at yo. - Yes. Come on in.

  • - Oh, man.

  • What is this here?

  • - This is, when my nieces and ns come over,

  • I'll play chess with them. Just trying to teach 'em strate.

  • - Huh. - And I'll show you...

  • uh, this picture here. The fami.

  • My parents, my brother, his wif.

  • CARLOS: How tall are your paren? - My dad is 6'4", and my mom is.

  • When we were in the third grade, we were 5'3".

  • We were taller than our third grade teacher.

  • We were 6'4" in the seventh gra.

  • We got our first recruiting let, uh, when we were in the eighth .

  • CARLOS: Who did you get the letters fro?

  • - The first recruiting letter wt was from Cal Berkeley.

  • Grew up here, Southern Californ. Los Angeles, San Fernando Valle.

  • 1978, we were born. Twins. I was the first.

  • - They must have been about 13 or 14 months old,

  • and we were in San Francisco.

  • Jason had his binky in his mout.

  • And he pulled out one binky for,

  • and he pulled out the second bi, and went over

  • and threw it in Jarron's mouth.

  • I got a binky, you got a binky.

  • And that was basically how they reacted to each other.

  • TERI: Jason and Jarron, for all intents and purposes,

  • I felt they were my children.

  • Jason always exhibited a little bit more leadership.

  • As a child, Jason was the first to walk.

  • Jarron followed immediately aft.

  • PAUL COLLINS: I'd take the kids with me to our local gym.

  • Basketball was the one that they both enjoyed.

  • JARRON COLLINS: My brother and I grew up with t.

  • Those guys were all my idols.

  • And I just wanted to get out the and play with them.

  • Play against 'em.

  • PAUL: You could actually tell when they were like 13 or 14

  • that if they continued to improve and like that,

  • they'd have a great opportunity to play in the pros.

  • JASON: We went to Harvard-Westlake, Southern Cali.

  • - It's one of the best academic institutions,

  • I'll say, in the United States.

  • PAUL: They became very popular with their classma.

  • - When we were growing up, my brother was probably

  • a little bit more introverted.

  • He was always a quiet guy.

  • Socially, I was probably a little bit more active.

  • JASON: I started realizing that I had different feelings

  • when my teammates would start tg about some of the girls in the ,

  • and that wasn't me.

  • Most young men will have crushes on some of their teachers.

  • Some of the cuter teachers. Female teachers.

  • I had a crush on our cute teach.

  • He just happened to be a guy.

  • Anytime, whether it was Jarron or one of my teammates

  • and the conversation about girl,

  • I would just try to either play,

  • and, like, laugh and smile,

  • or I would try to remove myself from the situation.

  • I grew up in the culture of spo,

  • and you're taught as a little b,

  • these are words that you can use to put people down,

  • and a lot of those words are homophobic words.

  • I don't want them to ever talk about me that way,

  • so let me see if I can try to b.

  • Maybe I'll find some girl who'sa make all these feelings go away.

  • Maybe there's still time for me to figure this out,

  • and end up being straight, kind.

  • CARLOS: Did you come out to any friends, or any family?

  • JASON: No. It was difficult

  • growing up in a very religious .

  • JARRON: Religion played an important part in our life.

  • It all goes back to our, our gr.

  • - Bacca was a force in and of h.

  • She was raised under Jim Crow l.

  • African-American culture has a l of pain and silence.

  • JASON: Every Sunday, you, you knew where to find her, in .

  • - So strict discipline in the h.

  • - Strict discipline. Very relig.

  • I was actually a Sunday school .

  • When I was in high school, I wod teach Sunday school to the litt.

  • But I reached a point where I got upset with religion.

  • My Uncle Mark here,

  • he is the first person in our family to come out as ga.

  • - When did he do that?

  • - He did that when I was around 16 years old.

  • Some of my dad's family members weren't as supportive.

  • I got upset with how people were using religion to separate,

  • and to point at a certain group,

  • and say, they're the bad guys.

  • And if you don't do things this,

  • then you are a bad person.

  • My mom, who I love dearly,

  • some of the stuff that she said.

  • She was one of those people who said things

  • that I'm sure she wishes she could take back.

  • CARLOS: Did that talk in any way, furth,

  • uh, your resistance to, to bein?

  • - I think it was more about me ,

  • trying to be the perfect son.

  • - Why'd you want to be a perfec?

  • - I saw how much my parents sacd

  • so that we could achieve our dr.

  • And I didn't want them to feel that their sacrifice...

  • wasn't appreciated,

  • and that I couldn't sacrifice something of myself.

  • So I sort of took a step back from religion, from my faith.

  • And, okay, was just, okay, just focus on other stuff.

  • Focus on basketball. Focus on my education.

  • Here's the diploma. CARLOS: Yeah.

  • - So people ask, they're like, "Did you graduate?" It's like, "

  • CARLOS: Now was Stanford always the dream, or did that--

  • JASON: No. It was getting a Division 1 scholarship, was t.

  • So we busted our butts. [laughs]

  • And we were able to pick and che which school we wanted to go to,

  • and Stanford was that school.

  • CARLOS: Did you think you were gonna make it to the N?

  • JASON: I always thought, like, if you keep working hard,

  • that you will make it.

  • If you're on this track, if you're at this level,

  • if you keep putting in the effo,

  • and try to do things the right ,

  • that you will make it to the NB.

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  • ARN TELLUM: I first caught wind of Jason

  • probably when he was in high scl playing at Harvard-Westlake.

  • They had won the state champion, I believe, two times.

  • Then when he went on to Stanfor,

  • as an agent, I paid a closer attention to hi.

  • Jason went solidly in the firstd as the 18th pick.

  • It was the beginning of his car.

  • [crowd cheering]

  • upbeat music playing

  • CARLOS: You come into the NBA

  • and you immediately go to a team

  • that starts competing for the championship.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Are you comfortable in the NBA out of the gate?

  • - I am, because when I was with the Nets in 2001,

  • it was in New Jersey, playing in the Meadowlands.

  • That first year, you're a rooki, and you're learning so much,

  • and you really don't know that t to the finals, that's not norma.

  • Usually it's a struggle, and to get out of the gate

  • and go to the finals the first ,

  • and have so much success, it was really cool.

  • CARLOS: While you were in the closet,

  • did you find yourself struggling either with depression,

  • or loneliness, or both?

  • JASON: All of the above.

  • I was hiding who I was.

  • I was afraid to be open,

  • and around, whether it's media, or my teammates.

  • I'd keep 'em close, but not too.

  • When we were on the road,

  • I would go to my room and just shut the door,

  • and just, "Okay, I'll see you at the team"

  • JARRON: When I was in the Western Confe,

  • I was in Utah, he was way out in New Jersey.

  • The way we'd communicate to another is, like,

  • "Hey, Jason, are you lonely?"

  • It just, and those words just never came out.

  • And we didn't, we didn't, we didn't have those type of in.

  • TERI: And I remember after a game,

  • when all the players came out and they were with their girlfr.

  • And he came out to see me,

  • and my heart broke.

  • 'Cause he had no one in that fa.

  • I just said, "Oh, my God. He's "

  • And that was really painful to .

  • [crowd roaring]

  • CARLOS: Being an NBA player,

  • how did being in the closet affect your play on the court?

  • - I never wanted to be the lead.

  • Because I knew that that was a n that the media looked to the mo.

  • Because then I didn't want those questions of,

  • "Why is he still single over 30" kind of thing.

  • I knew that I could be a different person on the court.

  • I sort of had that persona of the tough guy.

  • - He was the enforcer when we played basketball.

  • He was the guy who set the hard, set the hard foul.

  • JASON: Everything about being in the c,

  • all of that anger, stress,

  • when I stepped on the lines of a basketball court,

  • I got to take it out on somebod. [whistle blows]

  • ANNOUNCER: Ooh, hard foul by Jason Collins,

  • and Thomas hits the deck hard.

  • CARLOS: In an effort to mask his truth,

  • Jason assumed a different persoa on the court.

  • But off the court, Jason would e that only deepened his inner co.

  • JASON: So I started dating a, a girl from Stanford,

  • and kept telling myself that

  • this is the path that you're supposed to be on.

  • You're supposed to date women. You're supposed to get married.

  • PORTIA COLLINS: Jason met Carolyn Moos,

  • and all I could see was she was a lot of legs

  • and a lot of height and a very nice person.

  • JARRON: I knew that they, uh, were dati,

  • but, um, think I was just a little surprised,

  • 'cause I didn't know that their relationship was progressg to that point,

  • that they were gonna be, um, together, um,

  • man and wife. [chuckles]

  • PAUL: We were happy for 'em, and exci,

  • and started doing some of the...

  • PORTIA: The planning. - ...you know, pre-planning and.

  • - I was looking forward to gran. [laughing]

  • CARLOS: Did you love her?

  • - Yes. I, I, I...

  • I respected her.

  • When you love someone, and you're a gay man loving a w,

  • you love someone up to a certai,

  • because you don't have those other feelings.

  • Thankfully, we were able to call off the wedding.

  • CARLOS: How did she respond to that?

  • JASON: It was a lot of tears. A lot of.

  • CARLOS: Did you tell her at the time wh?

  • - No. It was a different reason.

  • And she was right. Yes, there was something else g.

  • TERI: When he broke up with her,

  • I was calling him almost every . "We need to talk about this.

  • "There is a reason here.

  • Let's just put it on the table."

  • And I remember, he was kind of -

  • um, pulling back away from me, so then I just let it go.

  • JASON: After that experience,

  • I said to myself, I'm not doing that to anyone el.

  • Like, I'm not doing that to mys.

  • I'm not doing that to another w.

  • CARLOS: And you didn't even tell Jarron at the time

  • that that was why. - No. No one knew.

  • That ended in 2009,

  • and I didn't tell anyone that Iy

  • until 2011.

  • The lockout of 2011, when I didn't have basketball,

  • I didn't have that routine,

  • I didn't have the practice, the games, the travel. The...

  • That was all gone, so I had to , like, a different routine.

  • And I was telling people that I was going out on a date.

  • No. I was here with my dog.

  • This was the first time that I y held up a mirror to my life, an,

  • "I want more out of life."

  • So I made a friend who was a trr who was training me.

  • I saw that he did an It Gets Be.

  • - When you need it most, support will be there for you.

  • And, uh, acceptance. Encouragem.

  • And, uh, it does get better.

  • - So I knew that he was a, a member of the community.

  • I knew that he was gay.

  • So I knew that he would have an.

  • So I reached out to him through.

  • Uh, I did come out in the email.

  • Then about an hour later, I get a call from a friend of m,

  • who says that the lockout has b.

  • "Isn't it great? You're gonna go back to work?"

  • And I was like, that's great, but what the heck did I just do?

  • I just hit sent-- I sent out th, like, what is gonna happen?

  • Am I gonna see this email on SportsCenter?

  • CARLOS: So you send that email,

  • and an hour later, the lockout'. - Yeah.

  • - Do you think you would have stayed in the closet?

  • - Yeah. I, I would have just gone back to business as usual.

  • I sent it on Saturday.

  • He didn't get back to me until Tuesday or Wednesday.

  • We ended up meeting in Brent wo.

  • I'm sitting there,

  • and that was the first time I ever said the words out loud,

  • "I am gay, and I don't know what I'm doing"

  • So he said that I need to start building a support system.

  • I reached out to my aunt the ne.

  • - Jason says, "Auntie, I have something to te"

  • I said, "What?" "I'm gay."

  • And I said, "I know."

  • And I said, "But how are the contracts goin"

  • And he said, "Did you hear what I said?

  • I said I'm gay, Auntie."

  • And I said, "Jason, I've known you've been .

  • And I'm proud and I'm happy that you're telling me."

  • JASON: My Uncle Mark was one of the pee

  • that I told over the summer, as.

  • They were the only two people w,

  • uh, for the 2011-2012 season.

  • That was when I was playing for the Atlanta Hawks.

  • - I said, you know, "You need to tell your parents."

  • And he said, "When I'm ready."

  • Portia and I are extremely clos.

  • So it was very hard for me not to say anything to Portia.

  • But I also was in this protecti,

  • okay, Jason, I'm going to let you tell them

  • when you think you're ready to .

  • - You still don't know, are you going to be accepted.

  • You still don't know what the reaction is gonna be,

  • and are they gonna look at you differently.

  • Are they gonna treat you differ.

  • 'Cause you want things to be, you know, normal.

  • When I did come out to my mom, or to my parents,

  • we discussed that we needed to go to therapy together.

  • 'Cause there was a lot of stuff that has happened

  • that we needed to talk about.

  • PORTIA: As his mother,

  • I wanted to know why wasn't I that first person.

  • What did I do to not create that safe place?

  • That it wouldn't be acceptable.

  • JASON: It did hurt her

  • that her son didn't feel comfortable enough to come to h.

  • I can remember 10 years ago, um,

  • being at family functions

  • and feeling like I wasn't able to be myself.

  • It was weird to be surrounded by your friends and family but..

  • not feel comfortable enough to..

  • say this is who I am, kind of thing, and...

  • Just think, 10 years ago,

  • I'm 31 years old. [laughs]

  • I would have never dreamed that something like this would..

  • would happen, like when we do these family events together.

  • To her credit, she has grown a t as a human being.

  • PORTIA: I would think Jason would probably say that

  • I have evolved to where I am now of being loving. Accepting.

  • JASON: I know that I'm very fortunate,

  • because I know when a lot of

  • LGBTQ people do come out,

  • there isn't that support for th.

  • Part of the reason why I chose jersey number 98

  • when I played for the Boston Ces

  • was because of this year,

  • because of the year that Matthew Shepard was taken from .

  • 1998. I was a, a sophomore in c.

  • I just remember thinking Matthew was college age

  • when this happened to him.

  • Just thinking what two people co when they have hate in their he,

  • and how they can inflict pain and violence, and, and,

  • and they murdered him just for .

  • It was sort of hiding in plain ,

  • and just being one with the LGBTQ community,

  • and honoring Matthew.

  • I had a really cool system, um, and structure,

  • um, keeping me in, in a good mi.

  • I got traded from the Boston Ces

  • to the Washington Wizards, and then it became,

  • okay, you're going to a new cit. A new job.

  • When you go to a new city, a ne,

  • "Hey, what's-- Hi, I'm Jason."

  • "Oh, do you have a wife and kid"

  • "Are you married?" "Do you have a girlfriend?"

  • I just got tired of telling tha.

  • CARLOS: Jason finally took steps

  • towards living life on his own .

  • But as a professional athlete in the public eye,

  • Jason knew that as long as he remained closeted,

  • he would never be at ease.

  • ARN: First week of March, in 2013,

  • he breaks the news to me that h.

  • And I said, "Look, I'm here to u and support you any way I can."

  • And he said, well, he needed to- he wanted to think about

  • how he goes about telling peopl.

  • So Jason's question to me was, should he do it now?

  • And I, and I said, "I don't know if you should do .

  • "I gotta think about this.

  • "This is an awful lot to digest in one call.

  • "I need some time to think abou.

  • I'll come back to you quickly wh I think-- what's the right path"

  • JASON: Arn said, "Let me think about t.

  • Let me come up with a plan, and I'll get back to you."

  • He thought about it, and he sai.

  • "Um, I think we should wait until after the season is over,

  • if you want to play next year," which is what I wanted to do

  • 'cause I knew I was still, you , playing well enough to play in .

  • ARN: This was one of the last frontiers of macho soc.

  • If you want to be the first acty player playing in professional ,

  • the fear is, how would you be ad in the locker room by your team?

  • I wanted this to be totally in Jason's words.

  • I wanted no one else to filter . I wanted this to be Jason.

  • And I realized that to me was the most important thing.

  • This was his moment. He was gonna express it.

  • Then I started thinking about a.

  • And I had a very close friend,

  • uh, Franz Lidz, who I grew up wh in Philadelphia,

  • who was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated.

  • So much of my relationship withn was trusting me

  • to deliver something for him that would guarantee

  • his voice could be reflected and tell his story,

  • and I believed Franz could do t.

  • And he could also help Jason write a beautiful story

  • that would be heartfelt, and also capture who Jason was.

  • JASON: After the season was over,

  • playing for the Washington Wiza, that's the room right there,

  • where we had the, uh, conversat,

  • and it was around a three-hour, 45-minute interview.

  • ARN: I realized that if there ws anyone that was gonna do this,

  • and be the first, there's probably no better pers.

  • no better person than Jason to .

  • TERI: I know he wanted to go out on h.

  • He wanted to play as an openly y NBA player.

  • - Who did you not tell,

  • because you knew if you told thm it would get out?

  • JASON: Some of my teammates.

  • I didn't tell my teammates untiw the story was gonna go public.

  • "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center.

  • "I'm black, and I'm gay.

  • "I didn't set out to be the firt openly gay athlete

  • "playing in a major American te.

  • But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversa"

  • CARLOS: And what was the immediate reacn

  • once the Sports Illustrated arte came in?

  • - There were those haters out t.

  • There were some people even sent me death threats.

  • But support from the league was overwhelmingly positive.

  • ARN: There was a lot player reaction.

  • Kobe Bryant, who I'd signed out of high scho,

  • who came out and supported Jason Collins in a very strong ,

  • championing be who you are,

  • and not to be ashamed. Have the courage to do that,

  • and we should support Jason.

  • I was very proud of Kobe for do.

  • - I got back-to-back calls from Oprah and Obama.

  • President Obama gets on the pho,

  • he says, what you've done today will have a positive impact

  • on someone that you might not ever meet in your lifetime,

  • and that as Americans, that's what we all should striv.

  • And I just was, like, whoa. Tha.

  • CARLOS: How much were you thinking about social ?

  • - I don't know if I was necessay thinking about social impact.

  • I was thinking about, I really want to go on a date.

  • CARLOS: So, the first time you kissed a?

  • - The Sports Illustrated article came out on a Monday.

  • That Friday.

  • CARLOS: You literally had never kissed a boy before t?

  • - No. So the article came out M. That Friday.

  • Here's, uh, my boyfriend Brunso.

  • - Oh. How long have you guys, uh, been together?

  • - We celebrated six years in Oc.

  • CARLOS: Congratulations. JASON: Thank you.

  • BRUNSON GREEN: How is my [kisses] sourdough st?

  • - Yeah. Let's go see how your sourdough starter is doing.

  • [laughing]

  • Oh, that smells--

  • - Does it smell? It's supposed to smell bad. Tha.

  • - It's-- yeah, okay. It smells.

  • - Cool. - Mm.

  • BRUNSON GREEN: It's rough. JASON: Sourdough starter.

  • We're gonna do a birthday dinner for Valentina...

  • - Oh. - And me.

  • - Okay. - And you!

  • [laughing] - Yay. When?

  • - Uh, um, Monday.

  • CARLOS: You were not playing

  • at the time you came out. JASON: No.

  • No, I was a free agent.

  • - Did you know you were gonna get another gig?

  • - No. I didn't know that I was going to get another gig.

  • ARN: It wasn't easy after that annout

  • getting him a job.

  • It took us all the summer, and into the season.

  • But I have to say that

  • David Stern, for example, it wasn't just talk.

  • He was calling teams, was encouraging teams.

  • - My brother was done living in the closet. He was ov.

  • He'd been living in a glass houe

  • where all of us knew, and he just wanted the world to.

  • Was there any apprehension about getting another opportunity

  • to play in the NBA? Yes.

  • ARN: There was starting to be a little bit of interest.

  • Teams were calling about him,

  • and I started to feel that, uh,- that something could happen.

  • - I only got one opportunity. O.

  • The night before that Saturday,

  • Arn Tellum reached out to me, u,

  • saying that the Nets are gonna . They're on the road.

  • They're playing the Lakers toni. You're gonna be in the game.

  • - Apropos, he started with the New Jersey Nets,

  • he finished his career with the Brooklyn Nets.

  • CARLOS: Were you ready to go?

  • - At that point in my career, I guess I'm kind of,

  • I like being thrown in the deep, kind of thing.

  • One thing that really helped me settle down...

  • was, um...

  • a conversation that I had with Kevin Garnett.

  • I was teammates with Kevin the year before in Boston.

  • He can get into the NBA Hall ofe

  • on trash-talking alone, let alone his playing ability.

  • But some of the words that he used were, uh, homophob.

  • When Kevin and I were sitting across from each other,

  • he tapped me on the arm and he ,

  • "Jason, I'm glad you're back in.

  • "I'm glad you're my teammate,

  • and this is gonna be huge for our country. For our sport."

  • It really did make me feel like I could breathe.

  • ANNOUNCER: Stepping into your Nets

  • for the very first time,

  • please welcome number 98,

  • Jason Collins.

  • JASON: That whole myth of,

  • it's gonna be a distraction. It's gonna like--

  • If anything, it brought the tea.

  • They felt like I was one of the brothers that they had to p.

  • CARLOS: How'd you feel when you would come out of a ga,

  • and you'd see your partner waiting for you in the family a?

  • JASON: That was the coolest thing.

  • Brunson being there, having your significant other

  • standing alongside everybody el,

  • that moment of not having to hi, it just...

  • You know, this is, you know, wh,

  • and we, we're just like everybo.

  • - When he came into the family , it was just a different Jason.

  • And I knew he was not going to be lonely anymore.

  • BRUNSON: I remember when I first met you,

  • you had just come out.

  • You looked like a deer in headls walking into this--

  • this housewarming party.

  • - Well, there, yeah. There was , a hundred gay people.

  • [laughs] - Right.

  • And you knew, like, a total of two gay people

  • in your life. - Yeah. It was, yeah.

  • - And then, it's just kind of fy that four months later,

  • we run into each other again, a-

  • and you were, like, so much more comfortable in you,

  • your size 17 shoes.

  • [laughing]

  • [kisses]

  • JASON: As a professional athlete, you ,

  • you tell yourself to play throu.

  • To keep, keep pushing, keep for.

  • I was 34, 35 at the time,

  • and playing, and I had a great .

  • I was, you know, 13 years in th.

  • But my body was telling me, "We.

  • Now it's time for me to like, s"

  • I went to an executive in the league office

  • and talked about what I thought I could bring to the table,

  • to the NBA, and there actually s a position that was created,

  • and so ever since then, I've been an "NBA Cares" ambass.

  • I don't want anyone else to go through what I went throu,

  • as far as waiting 33 years to c.

  • A lot of the folks here have already come out,

  • whether in their private life o, and just celebrating that.

  • For me, it was different. I didt come out till I was 33 years ol.

  • [laughing] Don't look at me like that!

  • He gonna look at me like... yea.

  • From everyone at the NBA, WNBA,

  • from our family to yours,

  • we feel really connected to thi, uh, center,

  • and thank you so much for what . Thank you for having us here to.

  • PORTIA: When you came up to meet my mot,

  • she absolutely adored you.

  • JASON: Oh, I think that, yeah, you,

  • you learning to play bid whist-- [laughs]

  • - By the way, I'm 21 years in, and I won't even do it.

  • [laughing] I'm, like, sorry, no.

  • PORTIA: That, that was the... All the real...

  • That, that sealed the deal. JASON: Yeah.

  • PAUL: I'm happy that they're together.

  • They get to share their lives.

  • I can see how happy they are.

  • - I also feel as though

  • we are able to communicate a lot better to him.

  • I just want my children, I know I still do,

  • you know, to be accepted by eve, and loved.

  • - Jason has transformed by bein.

  • More confident about his life.

  • And that he can tell people and he has nothing to be ashame.

  • JASON: My brother and I, we do a baske,

  • I'll wear, um, either really br,

  • pride-themed shoes,

  • or just something that can signl to a kid that I'm accepting.

  • That there's someone else in th,

  • that if that child is looking f.

  • Am I the only one here? And it', oh, wait. I might not be the on.

  • "Pro-basketball is a family.

  • "And pretty much every family Iw

  • "has a brother, sister, or cousin who's gay.

  • "In the brotherhood of the NBA,

  • I just happen to be the one who"

  • - My brother moved the needle i,

  • and because I guarantee my brother's not the only

  • African-American gay athlete.

  • My brother showed them that it',

  • and that he made it easier for the next generation.

  • TERI: He's here to normalize,

  • not just sports, but society.

  • You're not gonna be judged by the color of your skin,

  • nor should you be judged by the person you love.

  • And that's what I think Jason's basic goal is.

  • MAN: Can you sign? WOMAN: Jason!

  • MAN: Jason! WOMAN: Please!

  • MAN: Jarron! [crowd yelling]

  • JASON: And I hope there are other peope

  • coming from that place of accep,

  • and inclusion.

  • This is who we are.

  • soft piano music playing

soft instrumental music playi

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