{"id":38345,"date":"2023-02-09T18:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wls-sports-jason-collins-enters-game-as-nbas-first-openly-gay-player\/"},"modified":"2023-02-09T18:57:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:57:26","slug":"wls-sports-jason-collins-enters-game-as-nbas-first-openly-gay-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wls-sports-jason-collins-enters-game-as-nbas-first-openly-gay-player\/","title":{"rendered":"WLS Sports &#8221; Jason Collins &#8211; Enters Game As NBA&#8217;s First Openly Gay Player &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WLS Sports &#8221; Jason Collins &#8211; Enters Game As NBA&#8217;s First Openly Gay Player &#8220;<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/d1553aa22d5b040c52ab06b9f67e7666.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/d1553aa22d5b040c52ab06b9f67e7666-300x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"d1553aa22d5b040c52ab06b9f67e7666\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; Jason Collins has become the first openly gay player to see action in an NBA game.<\/p>\n<p>Collins, signed Sunday to a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn, reported into the game against the Los Angeles Lakers with 10:28 left in the second quarter and the Nets leading 35-26 after Nick Young made the first of his two free throws.<br \/>\nThe crowd welcomed him with a nice ovation when public address announcer Lawrence Tanter announced his name.<br \/>\nEarlier, Collins said he was too busy trying to learn plays to worry about making history.<br \/>\nWith a need for another big man, the Nets turned to the 7-foot Collins, who helped them reach two NBA Finals in the early 2000s.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WLS Sports &#8221; Jason Collins &#8211; Enters Game As NBA&#8217;s First Openly Gay Player &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}