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

LGBTQ inclusion efforts, including encouraging player participation in Pride Nights. They led trainings for incoming NBA players and were part of conversations that helped push the league to move the 2017 All-Star Game out of North Carolina because of the state’s controversial, anti-trans HB2 “bathroom bill.”

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