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 ...

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 ...

— -- 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 ...

Collins played with the Washington Wizards last season Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran, is the first active male athlete in a major American team sport to come out as gay.

In Sports Illustrated's cover package announcing that NBA center Jason Collins is gay, one paragraph is particularly telling. And Collins didn't even write it. Instead, ...

In the spring of 2013, Jason Collins wrote, “I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay,” in a first-person essay for Sports Illustrated. In 2014, Collins became the first openly gay ...

Jason Collins didn’t publicly come out as gay until his final NBA season. But once he was able to be himself, the trailblazing center says he unlocked deeper relationships with his teammates and ...

Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player, has married his long-time partner Brunson Green. Over the weekend, Collins tied the knot with The Help producer in a ceremony that took place in ...

Former Nets player, and the first openly gay athlete in the NBA, Jason Collins married his longtime partner, Brunson Green, recently. The couple reportedly tied the knot over the Memorial Day ...

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 ...