The NBA Cares Ambassador and former NBA player had an impact and influence that extended far beyond basketball. From NBA.com News Services A 13-year NBA veteran, Jason Collins’ impact and influence ...

Jason Collins, who was the first active openly gay player in NBA history, died on Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer, the league announced. He was 47. “We are heartbroken to share that Jason ...

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player, has died after a battle with brain cancer, his family and the NBA announced Tuesday. He was 47 years old. Collins was drafted with the 18th overall ...

Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player, died May 12 after an eight-month battle with stage 4 glioblastoma. He was 47. Collins made history in April 2013 when he came out publicly in a Sports ...

Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player, has died of brain cancer at 47, his family announced Tuesday. Collins, a 7-foot center who played for six different teams across 13 seasons, disclosed ...

Jason Collins, a longtime NBA center who became the first man to come out as openly gay while playing in any of America’s four leading professional sports leagues, died Tuesday following months of ...

Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player who went on to become a pioneer for inclusion and an ambassador for the league, has died after an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of a brain ...

Former NBA star Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in a major US professional sports league, has died at the age of 47. It comes after he revealed he had stage four glioblastoma, an aggressive ...

Jason Collins recently passed away at the age of 47 from brain cancer. Kirby Lee / Imagn Images In the wake of Jason Collins’ death earlier this week, Charles Barkley lamented how little he thinks ...

Thank you, Jason Collins, for being large -- large of spirit, large of import, but also large of physical stature. That itself helped. It helped reinforce that gay people, an immutable portion of ...

In 2013, Jason Collins became the NBA's first openly gay player. Justin Edmonds / Getty Images When Jason Collins was working up the courage to come out as gay to his grandmother, he worried what she ...

Former Stanford center Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player who went on to become a pioneer for inclusion and an ambassador for the league, has died eight months after being diagnosed with ...