NBA

Jason Collins becomes the first active pro athlete in the big leagues to come out as gay

Magic Johnson's son says his TMZ video was like a second coming out

The NBA legend shares thoughts on various LGBT issues with TMZ

Earvin Johnson III, 20, hits the town with his reported boyfriend

The NBA legend tells HuffPost Live that he's never met a gay NBA player, but John Amaechi disagrees

Randy Boyd's list of the most likely NBA players to be gay featured both John Amaechi and Tim Hardaway.

Denver Nugget with two moms becomes an ambassador to do more focused work for LGBT athletes

NBA star who used a gay slur publicly two years ago shows how far he's come

A year after hiring Rick Welts as team president, the Golden State Warriors are giving fans in the Bay Area something to celebrate for the first time in a half-decade. The Warriors sit atop the Pacific Division with a 9-6 record, tied for the seventh-best record in basketball. While Welts isn’t in charge of personnel, […]

Hudson Taylor and Aaron McQuade featured in training video

The former NBA All-Star talks to Outsports about his gay former teammate

The Golden State Warriors have not played in San Francisco since 1966. For most of the time since then they’ve called (what now is) Oracle Arena in Oakland their home. But new team president Rick Welts, along with team co-owner Peter Guber and NBA president David Stern, have announced the team’s return to San Francisco […]

Dirk Nowitzki I am a fan of Deadspin, read it daily and often find stories for this site on stuff they've run. But they are really reaching with an item today with the headline: "Did Dirk Nowitzki Shout A Homophobic Slur After Hitting The Shot That Locked Up Tonight’s Mavericks Win?" Here is the item […]

The NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement adds sexual orientation protection to its non-discrimination, the league has said. According to Michael Bass, NBA Senior Vice President, Marketing Communications: Non-discrimination language was added into the agreement that protects players from discrimination, including based on sexual orientation. The NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement adds sexual orientation protection to […]

My latest piece picked up by the Huffington Post is a column about why Rick Welts’ hiring by the Golden State Warriors is the most important gay sports moment this year: While people focus on the travails of athletes, the real power brokers in sports are the guys Welts works with every day. And they've […]

Less than two weeks after openly gay NBA executive Rick Welts left the Phoenix Suns to follow his heart, he’s been hired as president and COO of the Golden State Warriors. This is big, people. It's another sign of the eroding homophobia in sports. It was one thing for Welts to come out. But to […]

Just 24 hours before his final moments as president of the Phoenix Suns, Rick Welts was looking ahead with memories of the years he was afraid to come out of the closet. Having posed hours before for the NOH8 campaign, his role in ameliorating that fear for others was top-of-mind. “Having had no one in […]

Phoenix Suns president Rick Welts, who came out of the closet in May, has resigned as president of the Phoenix Suns. Welts told The Arizona Republic he is leaving to pursue a romantic relationship in Sacramento. The most important thing for me is to get my personal and professional lives better aligned. They’ve probably never […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been strangely silent these NBA playoffs, uncharacteristic for a guy who never hesitates to say what’s on his mind. Cuban left his self-imposed cone of silence after the Mavs won their first NBA title, beating the Miami Heat in six games. On "SportsCenter," Cuban let fly with some profanity […]

The verdict is in on “The Decision”: TKO, Dallas in six. The Dallas Mavericks won their first NBA championship, beating the Miami Heat, 105-95, in Game 6 of the Finals. But outside of Dallas, all most people will focus on is the failure of LeBron James to win a championship the year he bailed from […]