Barkley: I had gay teammates — and it didn’t bother me Former Rocket and current TV analyst Charles Barkley said he has played on two or three teams with gay players during his career — and that didn’t bother him. “First of all, every player has played with gay guys,” Barkley told 106.7 The Fan in Washington. If a player thinks they haven’t played with a gay player, he is “a stone-freakin’ idiot. “It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: ‘Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.’ First of all, quit telling me what I think. I’d rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can’t play,” Barkley said on The Fan. Barkley went on to say that he was never put in an awkward situation by a gay teammate. “A guy is never going to put himself in that situation in a professional locker room,” Barkley told the station. “It never crossed my mind, and I never felt any different about the guy.” It became a discussion on the radio when former Villanova starter Will Sheridan announced that he was gay recently. http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2011/05/barkley-i-had-gay-teammates-and-it-didnt-bother-me/ So, was there a Rockette? Pippen?
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Ding, ding, ding! I still can't believe how people ignore this. I've got friends I love dearly but there is no way I would go this far and I've been to other countries where kissing on the cheek or holding hands with members of the same sex is acceptable and encouraged.
Two OR three teams? It sounds like he doesn't even knows who was gay or not and is just assuming. He may have not played with any.
Cool. Some people are gay. And they can do things everyone else can do. We're all enlightened. Politics can gtfo of the GARM and off of ESPN.
Does it count if he is referring to himself as the gay teammate? There are photos of him kissing an elderly white man.
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