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The Big Lead: Kobe Meets Gay Former NBA Player John Amaechi … “It Didn’t Go Well”
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BallerBlogger.com: John Amaechi unwelcome at the Olympics?
SLAM Online: John Amaechi Isn’t Enjoying His Olympic Experiece
The Sporting Blog: Some Facts Would Be Nice Before We All Start Labeling Kobe Bryant a Homophobe
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Kobe Meets Gay Former NBA Player John Amaechi … “It Didn’t Go Well”
The Big Lead —
... in Beijing, and also serving as a basketball analyst for the BBC. In a brief but candid interview with the Rocky Mountain News (via ...
First Cup: Monday
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... Chris Tomasson of the Rocky Mountain News: "John Amaechi is at the Olympics, serving as a basketball analyst for his homeland Great Britain's BBC. His appearance has caught some in the NBA establishment by surprise. 'It's been tense to say the least,' Amaechi said when I ran into him in a lunch line about what it's been like being seeing some Team USA players and coaches. Amaechi said players have turned away from him, and there remains a 'lot of tension.' He mentioned seeing Lakers star Kobe Bryant. 'I ran into Kobe, and he was surprised to see me,' ...
John Amaechi unwelcome at the Olympics?
BallerBlogger.com —
... Chris Tomasson of The Rocky Mountain News reported yesterday that John Amaechi is broadcasting as a basketball analyst for his homeland Britain’s BBC. ...
John Amaechi Isn’t Enjoying His Olympic Experiece
SLAM Online —
... Amaechi is at the Olympic Games? Well, yes. Why exactly? Hard to tell. But whatever the case, it’s not exactly going as well as he’d hoped.
John Amaechi is apparently serving as a basketball analyst for the BBC, and according to the openly gay former NBAer, the Redeem Teamers haven’t exactly welcomed him with open arms whenever they’ve bumped into one another in Beijing.
In fact, some have acted as though he were a leper.
From the Rocky Mountain News:
“It’s been tense to say the least,” ...
Some Facts Would Be Nice Before We All Start Labeling Kobe Bryant a Homophobe
The Sporting Blog —
The news from Beijing: Kobe Bryant doesn't like gay people. That's right, John Amaechi is in town doing broadcast work for the BBC (inspired choice, by the way), and Kobe's one of several Team USA members who has been less than cordial toward him. Denver Nuggets 24/7 reports that the openly-gay Amaechi has encountered "tension" in Beijing, and singles out one star to illustrate his point: ...
Amaechi Says There's Been a 'Lot of Tension' at the Olympics, Because, Um, You Know
FanHouse —
Filed under: NBA Media Watch, NBA Rumors, USA BasketballSome pretty stout not-actually-allegations stemming from John Amaechi recently, via the Rocky Mountain News, via Marcel at SLAM, whereby he accuses Kobe Bryant and a bunch of other somewhat anonymous USA basketball types of homophobia. Or, if you want to take it further than that, some sort of sexist-profiling. "It's been tense to say the least,'' Amaechi said when I ran into him in a lunch line about what it's been like being seeing some Team USA ...
You Know How I Knew John Amaechi Was Gay?
This is God Given —
... Upon hearing the recent news of John Amaechi coming upon some tensions at the Olympics, no pun intended, I decided to bring back an old radio clip from when the news of his sexuality broke. ...
Baller-Turned-Blogger John Amaechi’s Olympic Musings
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... “Man In The Middle” author John Amaechi is covering the Olympics for the BBC and after encountering the Rocky Mountain News’ Chris Tomasson, alluded to some weirdness with members of the U.S.hoops contingent (”I ran into Kobe, and he was surprised to see me. It didn’t go well”). ...
Amaechi, Kobe and Being Uncomfortable
D.C. Sports Bog —
... into the U.S. sports blogscape earlier this week, after he told a U.S. reporter that his only Olympic meeting with Kobe Bryant "didn't go well." I had actually asked Amaechi if we could chat last week, but we didn't sit down until yesterday, when those three words had already sparked Internet debate about whether Kobe was a homophobe. Sigh. So let's get this out of the way up front: the actual "incident," which Amaechi had already ...

