Jason Collins opened a door. Many LGBTQ athletes still don’t feel safe walking through it more than a decade later

the locked room would make me uncomfortable.”

When someone replied to that statement by saying “there’s no place in the NBA for gay players,” Johnson responded, “I agree.”

After Collins’ retirement, NBA Cares named Collins an ambassador for the league’s social responsibility program, where he continued advocating for LGBTQ inclusion in sports.

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