{"id":449,"date":"2014-02-23T12:31:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T17:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=449"},"modified":"2014-02-23T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T17:37:35","slug":"jason-collins-signs-with-nets-become-first-openly-gay-player-in-pro-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/02\/23\/jason-collins-signs-with-nets-become-first-openly-gay-player-in-pro-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Collins signs with Nets, becomes first openly gay player in pro sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/jasoncollins.jpg\" alt=\"jasoncollins\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/jasoncollins.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/jasoncollins-594x334.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/jasoncollins-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nJason Collins is set to join the Brooklyn Nets. The 7-foot center<\/p>\n<p>Collins, 35, will become the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the major four sports. NFL Draft prospect Michael Sam is set to become the first gay player in the NFL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Y! Sources w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpearsNBAYahoo\">@SpearsNBAYahoo<\/a>: Nets reach agreement w\/ Jason Collins to make him first openly gay player in pro ball. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/xbOUX5DvIZ\">http:\/\/t.co\/xbOUX5DvIZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WojYahooNBA\/statuses\/437640027477000192\">February 23, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>How much Collins helps the Nets remains to be seen. Collins had just 1.1 PPG, 1.6 RPG, and 0.3 Blocks per game during his 30 game stint with the Washington Wizards in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Collins is expected to play Sunday against the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Collins is set to join the Brooklyn Nets. The 7-foot center Collins, 35, will become the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the major four sports. NFL Draft prospect Michael Sam is set to become the first gay player in the NFL. Y! Sources w\/ @SpearsNBAYahoo: Nets reach agreement w\/ Jason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[198,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-news","8":"tag-jason-collins","9":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}