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[PapaG]

Dante- what the hell you bringing up an old thread back like this?

Eric, if you're ever in PDX, we'll take you and your partner out (if he's here). As I said earlier, we love our gay friends! They are more fun than any couples we know.

 

[KingSpeed]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2762656

"From a marketing perspective, if you're a player who happens to be gay and you want to be incredibly rich, then you should come out, because it would be the best thing that ever happened to you from a marketing and an endorsement perspective"- Marc Cuban

He knows something about being rich.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

I would be interested about what impact an NBA player coming out would have on their ability to get endorsement deals . . .

Just as I post this KS beats me to it with an article . . . did JA become rich on endorsement deals after coming out?

 

[KingSpeed]

Eric, if you're ever in PDX, we'll take you and your partner out (if he's here). As I said earlier, we love our gay friends! They are more fun than any couples we know.

Sure! Thanks!

 

[PapaG]

I would be interested about what impact an NBA player coming out would have on their ability to get endorsement deals . . .

Just as I post this KS beats me to it with an article . . . did JA become rich on endorsement deals after coming out?

John Amechi came out after his NBA days. Same as Billy Bean (not the A's GM). Did Billy Bean get rich after coming out? Last I heard, he got rich as a real estate broker in Miami.

 

[KingSpeed]

I would be interested about what impact an NBA player coming out would have on their ability to get endorsement deals . . .

Just as I post this KS beats me to it with an article . . . did JA become rich on endorsement deals after coming out?

Not sure but he wasn't playing anymore which is a big difference. If a current player, especially a STAR, came out, it would be huge. Like Cuban said, the guy would be a hero.

 

[KingSpeed]

"We removed (Tim Hardaway) from representing us because we didn't think his comments were consistent with having anything to do with us," Stern told reporters Thursday at the opening of a fan festival at a Las Vegas casino, part of the NBA's All-Star weekend.

See? It was the gay-hater who got the "bad press" and the admonition of the league.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2007-02-15-hardaway_x.htm