usfbulls2004 Posted February 15, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 127 Content Count: 2,118 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/21/2004 Share Posted February 15, 2007 What's everyone's opinion on this guy? Freedom of speech or just being an A$$?http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2766213 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarveyGlass Posted February 15, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 16 Content Count: 549 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/2006 Share Posted February 15, 2007 What's everyone's opinion on this guy? Freedom of speech or just being an A$$?http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2766213Both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple B Posted February 15, 2007 Group: Moderator Topic Count: 1,615 Content Count: 74,650 Reputation: 10,881 Days Won: 424 Joined: 11/25/2005 Share Posted February 15, 2007 What's everyone's opinion on this guy? Freedom of speech or just being an A$$?http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2766213Both.Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achiever1911 Posted February 15, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 66 Content Count: 420 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/26/2001 Share Posted February 15, 2007 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/02/15/bc.bkn.hardawayremarks.ap/index.htmlNEW YORK (AP) -- Former NBA center John Amaechi, who disclosed last week he's gay, said anti-gay comments by another retired player "demonstrate the need to continue the conversation."Retired Miami Heat guard Tim Hardaway said on a radio show Wednesday that he hates gay people, then later apologized for his remarks."I don't need Tim's comments to realize there's a problem," Amaechi told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday. "People said that I should just shut up and go away -- now they have to rethink that."Hardaway's comments were sparked by Amaechi's disclosure he's gay."You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people," Hardaway said while a guest on Sports Talk 790 The Ticket in Miami. "I'm homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States."The host asked Hardaway how he would interact with a gay teammate."First of all, I wouldn't want him on my team. And second of all, if he was on my team, I would, you know, really distance myself from him because, uh, I don't think that is right. I don't think he should be in the locker room while we are in the locker room."If he did find out that a teammate was gay, Hardaway said he would ask for the player to be removed from the team."Something has to give," Hardaway said. "If you have 12 other ballplayers in your locker room that's upset and can't concentrate and always worried about him in the locker room or on the court or whatever, it's going to be hard for your teammates to win and accept him as a teammate."Amaechi also detailed his life, in his autobiography Man in the Middle, which was released Wednesday. He hoped his coming out would be a catalyst for intelligent discourse."His words pollute the atmosphere," Amaechi said. "It creates an atmosphere that allows young gays and lesbians to be harassed in school, creates an atmosphere where in 33 states you can lose your job, and where anti-gay and lesbian issues are used for political gain. It's an atmosphere that hurts all of us, not just gay people."Hardaway later apologized for the remarks during a telephone interview with Fox affiliate WSVN in Miami."Yes, I regret it. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said I hate gay people or anything like that," he said. "That was my mistake."Hardaway has reportedly been removed from further league-related appearances."It is inappropriate for him to be representing us given the disparity between his views and ours," NBA commissioner David Stern said in a statement to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel."Famously, they're saying in 2007 that homophobia is not an issue," Amaechi said. "While [Hardaway] is not a representative of the NBA or of straight men, there's no point pretending it's not an opinion that is out there." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman_Momart Posted February 15, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 70 Content Count: 1,911 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/14/2005 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Tim Hardaway was acting like an ass. Most homophobes are actually gay or insecure about something. how can you hate someone you dont even know? sounded very ignorant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama_Bull Posted February 15, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,207 Content Count: 18,470 Reputation: 899 Days Won: 44 Joined: 10/14/2003 Share Posted February 15, 2007 I don't have to like someone's political or sexual orientation, but I would keep those opinions to myself, especially if I knew they could be picked up by the media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.T. Posted February 15, 2007 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 4,749 Content Count: 37,659 Reputation: 2,361 Days Won: 29 Joined: 12/24/2001 Share Posted February 15, 2007 What's everyone's opinion on this guy? Freedom of speech or just being an A$$? http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2766213 Both. Yup. Agree . . . he should have just said to each his own ... and then he later says he's sorry : we know your thoughts now. But I don't think it's as bad as being a racists ... if somebody made his comments regarding a "swinging" lifestyle, nobody would mind. NBA did a good thing in "banning" him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rueben_Horowitz Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 How smooth is Tim? LOL. Why don't you tell us how you really feel.It's not like they were setting him up for that reaction, there was no pressing; he just started ranting like some toothless clansman. He flushed his broadcaster dreams down the toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smazza Posted February 16, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 9,898 Content Count: 66,091 Reputation: 2,434 Days Won: 172 Joined: 01/01/2001 Share Posted February 16, 2007 he had right to say what he saidbut he is a fool and a bigot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted February 16, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 197 Content Count: 10,251 Reputation: 270 Days Won: 14 Joined: 08/16/2005 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Wow. I agree with smazza. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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