Former NBA Player John Amechi to come out..

[Rollie_Fingaz]

The cover for "Man in the Middle," John Amaechi's upcoming book.
The book, published by ESPN Books (owned by the Walt Disney Company, parent company of ESPN), is entitled "Man in the Middle." It is due to be released later this month.


Amaechi becomes first NBA player to come out

John Amaechi, who played at Penn State and for five seasons in the NBA, will announce he is gay in an upcoming book.

Amaechi, born in Massachusetts but raised in England, would be the first NBA player to come out publicly. Few other men's professional major sport athletes have announced they are gay. Among them are football player Esera Tuaolo, baseball player Billy Bean and baseball umpire Dave Pallone.

Amaechi, a 6-10 center, played for Cleveland, Orlando and Utah during five NBA seasons. He averaged 6.2 points and 2.6 rebounds before retiring from the league in 2003.

He is currently known in Britain as a television personality and for helping fund the Amaechi Basketball Center in Manchester.

He played collegiately at Penn State after transferring from Vanderbilt.

Amaechi will also be the subject of ESPN's "Outside the Lines" on Sunday (9:30 a.m. ET). The book will also be excerpted next week on ESPN.com and in the next issue of ESPN The Magazine.

 

[SpiritualPorn]

Brings a whole new meaning to "Low Post Moves"

Fuck this faggot bitch.......

Backing him down in the lane gets him hard.............

 

[cranrab]

more from john amaechi:

The 36-year-old former player said that while he's heard from everyone he played with at Penn State, he has yet to hear from a single former NBA teammate since coming out in February.

"Probably 30 of my former (NBA) teammates have my e-mail and my telephone contacts and probably 16 or so of those I was in regular touch with and there are probably 10 people who I have (on instant messenger). And zero - nobody - who's active in the NBA has been in touch with me since the day I came out, despite the fact that most of them knew I was gay in the first place," Amaechi said.

He also wondered why nba.com has never mentioned his homosexuality when it was such a huge sports story everywhere else.

Amaechi surprised many in the audience by declaring he's not a sports fan and that he has no desire to pick up a basketball again, although he is intrigued by the thought of playing for a gay team.

"I haven't watched a professional basketball game in three, maybe four years," he said. "And it's not because I hate the NBA or I harbor any kind of (resentment). None of that. It's just that Saturday afternoon, I can think of something better to do."

 

[RunawaySlave]

I would respect him more if he came out while he was playing.
Rather than wait until his career is dead and stinking.

It reeks of a man just trying to capatilize now that the money
train has run out of gas

 

[Rollie_Fingaz]

I would respect him more if he came out while he was playing.
Rather than wait until his career is dead and stinking.

It reeks of a man just trying to capatilize now that the money
train has run out of gas

The thing is I've read his book, and it has very little to do with him being gay. It has more to do with him being an Englishman learning how to live in the U.S. and how he wants to inspire young kids.

But that won't sell large amounts of books...