LOS ANGELES -- History? Pressure? Jason Collins would have none of it after becoming the NBA's first active openly gay player. After all, there was a game to play. "Right now, I'm focusing on ...

— -- NEW YORK -- Jason Collins, who became the first openly gay athlete in North America's four recognized major team sports when he played for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets last season, announced ...

Jason Collins made history by becoming the first openly gay professional athlete in one of the four major U.S. professional sports, and a year-and-a-half later, the time was right for him to step i… ...

Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran, is the first active male athlete in a major American team sport to come out as gay. Collins made the announcement in a first-person essay for Sports ...

Former NBA player Jason Collins sometimes makes coming out as gay sound easy. ... Jason Collins (98) takes the court in his third game as a Brooklyn Net on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014.

— -- LOS ANGELES -- Jason Collins became the first openly gay athlete to play in North America's four major professional team sports Sunday when he played 11 minutes in the Brooklyn Nets' 108 ...

At least one NBA coach, however, is convinced Collins will have a job next year. Lawrence Frank, who coached Collins in New Jersey from 2001-2004 as an assistant, and from 2004-2008 as a head ...

In deciding to become the nation’s first openly gay professional basketball player, Jason Collins cited an unusual inspiration: a U.S. congressman who happened to be his college roommate ...

Long before the 2014-15 season started, Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in the NBA, knew his time as a professional basketball player was over. But he wanted to wait until the right ...

For Jason Collins—the retired NBA player who played for the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Atlanta Hawks and Washington Wizards—wearing the number 98 on his jersey for most of his 13-season ...

LOS ANGELES - Jason Collins became the first openly gay active player in the National Basketball Association, breaking ground in major professional U.S. team sports as the country's growing ...