THE NBA SHUTS TIM HARDAWAY DOWN!!!

By L.T. Dinwiddie
Gay blogger Rod 2.0 did an amazing follow-up story on former NBA player Tim Hardaway’s very recent, and extremely disturbing remarks towards gay people. While I believe that everyone has the right to have their own opinion, I do believe that the line(s) should be drawn when it comes to spewing outright hatred towards another group of people.

The National Basketball Association has come down hard and swift on Tim Hardaway by removing him from its All-Star weekend activities, one day after the former ball player said, ''I hate gay people'' in a radio interview.

The NBA canceled all of Hardaway's events scheduled for this weekend, including an appearance as an ''NBA Legend'' at the YMCA of Southern Nevada and participation in the NBA's community caravan leading up to Sunday's All-Star game in Las Vegas.
"It is inappropriate for him to be representing us given the disparity between his views and ours,'' NBA Commissioner David Stern said in a statement issued by the league.

In a Wednesday radio interview with the Miami Herald's chief sports columnist, the former Miami Heat guard criticized the recent coming out of John Amaechi. Haradway insisted that he would never play on a team with an openly gay man and offered these choice observations: "You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States." FULL STORY