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So … well… you queers make yourselves scarce! Pronto!
Tim Hardaway? Really? Who could possibly give a damn what a cortisone-addled chooch like him has to say about anybody?
You USED to play basketball. Seriously, back into obscurity with you.
A quote from the interview:
“First of all I wouldn’t want him on my team,” said Hardaway. “Second of all, if he was on my team I would really distance myself from him because I don’t think that’s right and I don’t think he should be in the locker room when we’re in the locker room.”
Hmm, sounds strangely like something I might have heard a white dude say in the early 60’s about black dudes. Nice to see that bigots come in all colors - that’s true racial equality at its best.
Mr. Hardaway…kindly go fuck yourself.
Wow, this guy is gonna get tons of press ops now! What a loser. The only way that this PR isn’t harmful for him is if he comes out as blatantly homophobic, gets on the news for it, apologizes for it, goes to rehab, and comes back “cured”.
Wow, that’s several weeks of coverage for a no-name celebrity. All PR is good PR they say though. Wait. Why does this sound familiar? Seems something similar happened recently…
“I let it be known I don’t like gay people. I don’t like to be around gay people. I’m homophobic.”
Well, at least he admits it. That’s something, I guess.
Boy, it was just his dumb luck to be drafted by the Golden State Warriors so he could play right across the water from San Francisco!
Wow. I just listened to the whole radio interview. This man is so paranoid about being around gay men, and having them look at him, especially in the locker room…lol.
Me thinks he doth protest too much.
What a disappointment. I loved Tim Bug when I lived in the East Bay area in the mid '90’s. (Like me, he moved there from Chicago, although he made a stopover in El Paso.) Dude had mad skills, and combined well with Chris Mullin and a rookie Latrell Sprewell. Only hoops jersey I ever owned was his.
Good thing I lost that jersey years ago, so I don’t have to take the time to burn the thing.
Did anybody important say anything bad about gays recently?
Sadly, someone probably did, but this isn`t an example.
Referring to the same story (Mr. Amaechi coming out) LeBron James said “it’s a big trust issue”–in context, whether he meant that he couldn’t trust a gay teammate in the locker room or that he couldn’t trust a teammate who was dishonest about his sexuality, wasn’t entirely clear. Some Sixers player I didn’t recognize the name of (haven’t followed the game since I played in high school) said “as long as they don’t bring their gayness on me, I’m cool with (having gay teammates)”, which is garden-variety ignorant but probably not intentionally hateful; but in the same interview he brought out some strange analogy about married men running around with other men, using loaded words like “foolishness”, and never really connected the two concepts. So there’s been a little bit of vague ignorance, but not a lot of out-and-out hatred, from the little I’ve seen of this story.
FWIW, Grant Hill (I think?) applauded Mr. Amaechi and expressed a wish that younger gay players would take courage from the news, and another Orlando player was more pragmatic, neutrally pointing out that a young player would experience some support and face a lot of bigotry in the league.
Did you hear about the NFL Hall of Famer who came out the other day?
Yeah, he came into the league as a tight end and retired as a wide receiver. 
You know, it seems like the ones that are always so loud and hateful against gays are the ones who end up being outed the loudest and most embarrassingly. Just something to think about.
Hardaway has actually ALREADY apologized - by saying he regretted saying it, of course, not because he doesn’t hate gay people.
I thought James’ comments were actually worse. Hardaway was straight-out bigoted and thus easily dismissed, even by people who are uncomfortably with homosexuality. James is about the biggest star in the league, and he was more encouraging of discrimination and mistrust.
I didn’t know who he was. I don’t care. He, like what he has to say, is irrelevant. I’m sure he did regret saying it, too. Not thinking or believing it, just saying it publicly where he can earn the scorn of people who do know who he is. Or was. Whatever.
Back into the round file with him.
Is this news to you?
What a closed minded ass he is- I wonder what his reaction was to Michael Richards’ comments awhile back.
There is a teeny difference though, in his comments and Lebron James- one is 20 years old, the other is 40. Both should know better, but one should really know better.
And kudos to David Stern by cancelling any further NBA appearances for the homophobe by saying: “It is inappropriate for him to be representing us given the disparity between his views and ours” - classic.
Sometimes David Stern gets some things incredibly right. Others, like the microfiber basketball, go incredibly wrong. I understand why he did it, but he was downright Bush-ish with his insistence that the NBA stick with the ball. It had to take people getting their fingers cut open by the new ball (in addition to virtually everyone expressing their displeasure for it) for him to finally admit defeat.
Actually, this is one subject where I would expect a 20-year-old might do better than somebody twice his age. Hardaway’s actual words were worse, but they might not do as much damage - kids who care what NBA players say aren’t listening to Tim Hardaway.
What an ass. I can’t believe someone would actually say that with a mic to their mouth.
What’s going on? I thought gays were making more progress than this.
In a weird way, it’s kind of refreshing to hear a bigot just come out and admit it. “Yeah, I hate gay people, I’m a homophobe,” without trying to weasel it or qualify it. Hardaway has probably screwed himself for any future professional NBA associations, but I wonder how many other pro athletes think the same way he does and just aren’t stupid enough to say it out loud so unequivocally.