I was at a point in my life where I am just tired of having to pretend to be somebody I am not. I was basically living a lie. For the last seven, eight years, I was basically waiting to exhale.
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Hopefully, this will not have a negative effect on the W. N. B. A., ... Me coming out does not change what the W. N. B. A. stands for as a basketball league. I don't think there's any secret that the huge support we get comes from the gay and lesbian community. It's unfortunate that people, and those not only in W. N. B. A., are not able to feel like they can be who they are. They lose endorsements they lose friends and family.Sheryl Swoopes
Jordan absolutely loves it. What kind of sold him on it was he heard or found out that this is where Kobe Bryant started playing basketball. He said, 'Mom I want to go to Italy because I want to be just like Kobe. I want to speak Italian. I want to be able to speak more than one language and I want to be a great basketball player.' So I probably have Kobe to thank for that.
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And I just think right now, we're clicking (on) all cylinders offensively, defensively we're moving the ball, we're making other teams have to work on defense. And when you're playing basketball like that, you're going to be pretty tough to beat.
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To be honest, I think a lot of teams right now are questioning, 'Can we beat them How good are they'
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This is not something that we wanted, ... We dug ourselves into a pretty big hole, but we came back. But we really couldn't ever get into any kind of flow. I think we were more concerned tonight with what they were going to do and that really hurt us tonight.
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Do I think I was born this way No, ... And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are.
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