(That these were the two players who used to exchange pre-game kisses made the whole thing even odder.) Bottom line: this was never exactly about an openly gay player, but it was the beginning of a conversation about sexuality that no other pro league was having in quite the same way. It was always important to Magic that everyone understand and believe he got the disease from straight sex - so important that he and Isiah Thomas had a falling out when Magic accused his former friend of spreading LGBT rumors. I contended that the NBA began its conversation about player sexual orientation in the early 1990s wen Magic Johnson revealed himself to be HIV positive. Mike Pesca and I discussed this on the show today. "Back then it was like, 'Oh, my God, he's gay.' If I told people I was gay, they would say, 'Oh, we knew' - 'we was just waiting for you to come out!'"īut even His Royal Wormness was not the beginning.
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