NBA's first openly gay player marries longtime partner
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Collins, who came out in an essay written for Sports Illustrated in 2013, tied the knot with Hollywood producer Brunson Green over Memorial Day weekend in a ceremony in Austin, Tex.
'When I was younger, I dated women,' Collins wrote in the essay. 'I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue.'
Collins, a 13-year NBA veteran who retired in 2014, and Green, best known for his work on The Help, had been together since 2014.
According to reports, the couple got engaged in 2023 during Pride Night at a Los Angeles Lakers game.
In a Sports Illustrated interview in 2023, Collins described how he and Green met.
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