Comments on Radio Show Came a Week After a Former NBA Player Revealed He Was Gay
Feb. 15, 2007 — A week after a former NBA star revealed he was gay, retired Miami Heat star Tim Hardaway made some incendiary comments about gays Wednesday on a Miami radio show.
“You know, I hate gay people,” Hardaway said during an interview on “790 the Ticket.”
“You know, I let it be known I don’t like gay people. I don’t like to be around gay people,” he said.
Those in-your-face comments came just a week after another former NBA player, John Amaechi, revealed that he was gay. Amaechi told ESPN that he lived in fear that his teammates would learn of his sexuality.