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Openly gay Amaechi finds tension at Olympics : Denver Nuggets 24/7

The Big Lead found this 8/18/2008 on blogs.rockymountainnews.com

BEIJING _ There's a former NBA player who had a 6.2 career scoring average broadcasting from the Olympics. Ordinarily, that wouldn't mean much. But that player's name is John Amaechi, who released the book "Man in the Middle,'' last year, becoming the first player who was at one time was associated with the NBA to come out as being gay.