Collins signing a no-brainer for Nets
NBA's first openly gay player fits right into Brooklyn's game plan
Signing Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player, to a 10-day contract last Sunday afternoon was about basketball first and making history second for the Brooklyn Nets.
The move quickly accomplished both for our borough’s first major pro sports franchise since the Jackie Robinson-led Dodgers left Brooklyn following the 1957 season.
With 10:28 remaining in the second quarter of Sunday night’s game against the Lakers at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, Collins checked in at the scorer’s table and made his way onto the hardwood as an openly gay player for the first time in his 13-year NBA career.