{"id":218675,"date":"2025-09-11T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218675\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:09:11","slug":"jason-collins-longtime-nba-player-and-first-active-openly-gay-athlete-has-brain-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218675\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Collins, longtime NBA player and first active openly gay athlete, has brain tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime NBA player Jason Collins is undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, his family announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Collins, 46, played 13 seasons in the NBA, starting and ending his career with the Nets. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNBA Ambassador and 13-year NBA veteran Jason Collins is currently undergoing treatment for a brain tumor,\u201d the NBA said in a statement. \u201cJason and his family welcome your support and prayers and kindly ask for privacy as they dedicate their attention to Jason\u2019s health and well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.76074219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37084658\" width=\"449\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/brooklyn-new-york-3-17-28976935.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Collins #98 of the Brooklyn Nets reacts to a foul call during the fourth quarter. The Nets defeated the Suns 108-95 in an NBA basketball game at the Barclay Center on March 17, 2014. \" class=\"wp-image-37084658\"  \/>Jason Collins playing in his final NBA season in 2014. Paul J. Bereswill<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/04\/29\/veteran-nba-center-collins-becomes-first-active-openly-gay-athlete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collins came out as gay in 2013<\/a>, becoming the first active athlete to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I\u2019m raising my hand,\u201d Collins said at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.671875;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37084632\" width=\"396\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/l-r-jason-collins-brunson-110000368.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Collins and Brunson Green attend the This Is About Humanity Soiree on August 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.\" class=\"wp-image-37084632\"  \/>Jason Collins with longtime partner Brunson Green. Getty Images for This Is About Humanity<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/01\/sports\/jason-collins-nbas-first-openly-gay-player-gets-married-to-longtime-partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collins got married<\/a> to longtime partner Brunson Green in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime NBA player Jason Collins is undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, his family announced on Thursday. Collins,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[55759,3124,119335,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-218675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brain-tumor","9":"tag-brooklyn-nets","10":"tag-jason-collins","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115186772745801144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}