Former NBA Player Tim Hardaway "Hates Gay People"
Former NBA Player Tim Hardaway "Hates Gay People"
#1Former NBA Player Tim Hardaway "Hates Gay People"
Posted: 2/15/07 at 7:29am
http://www.nbcsports.com/nba/1053992/detail.html?dest=rss|
Retired Miami Heat guard Tim Hardaway said Wednesday that he hates gay people, but later said he regretted the remarks.
"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," he said while a guest on Sports Talk 790 The Ticket. "I'm homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States."
Unbelievable. I was always a fan of Hardaway on the court and he seemed like a pretty down to earth, nice guy.
It's beyond my comprehension that people feel this way.
Updated On: 2/15/07 at 07:29 AM
#2re: Former NBA Player 'Hates Gay People'
Posted: 2/15/07 at 7:32am
Here's hoping he has a long, nagging sports injury that is not covered by health insurance and costs him whatever money Nike and Reebok and the thousands of fans who saw Heat games earned him.
#2tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 7:56am
love the av, patronus. that man's the reason why i gave up on my hometown team.
i never liked hardaway. he was the enemy during the van gundy/riles wars of the 90's and i always saw him as a smarmy little sh*t.
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#3tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 8:09am
I find that the most homophobic people are latent homosexuals themselves.
So my guess is Hardaway is in denial.
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#4tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 8:36amTim Hardaway is a bitchy whore.
#5tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 9:38am"Tim Hardaway's rant came just a day after he participated in an NBA Cares event." Have to love that.
#6tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 9:45am
hey now, tim apologized...sorta...and funny enough sounds like he was channeling some bww posters:
"there are more important things to worry about than my comments. we should be more concerned about president (george) bush and all the people dying in iraq."
i may hate gays, but bush is killing iraqis
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#7tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 9:52am
The rest of that quote was probably...
", well all of the straight people. There is no need to be concerned about the gays being killed in Iraq because like I said, it shouldn't be in the world or in the United States."
Thanks for the comments on the av, papa. I love my Braves, but Rocker is a dark cloud. 
#8tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 9:53amAnd to think I used to have a thermos signed by him.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#10tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 9:56am
Truth be told, he's absolutely right. At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter what this retired lugnut has to say.
I still think it's a good thing for the world that, for whatever reason, gay people don't seem to have the agressive urge to fight over all this (yes, yes, I remember Stonewall - but that sorta seems to be the exception to the rule.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - I couldn't care LESS what anyone thinks of me. Give me the rights everyone else has, and you can stand on every street corner and call me everything but a white man. BUT, give me my damn rights!
#11tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 11:11amI don't follow basketball too closely, but I could easily name 100 or so players off the top of my head. He's not one of them, so apparently he's an inconsequential little toad whose no different from the greasy freepers who wedge themselves up next to a computer screen to type out vile nonsense day after day. Unpleasant people, but ultimately of no interest or concern to me. Fade away, Mr. Has-Been.
#12tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 11:14amtazber is right on the money--the only ones to ever call 'mos out in public are other 'mos. Nobody suspects the bigoted ya-hoo. Except savvy, attractive lean NYC homos who look far younger than their alleged 30-some odd years...oh, and tazber too.
#13tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 11:58amWell, maybe he should be sent to gay rehab too. He's Pathetic.
#15tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:09pmYes. And OUR opinion is that he's a small-minded homophobe.
#16tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:09pm
Did anyone dispute his right?
You also have the right to be a closeted fool.
#17tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:10pm
Having an opinion and saying dispicable things are 2 different things. Especially when you say those things in public, on a radio show.
He esentially said, that gays don't belong in the world. That he wants to get rid of them.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#18tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:12pmI could care less what he thinks of gay people, and I said so before. BUT, I do have a problem with people given public platforms who actually suggest that we shouldn't be allowed to exist. That comes perilously close to advocating attacks on gays (how else are they not supposed to be 'allowed'?)
#19tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:13pmI think we should check adam4adam and find his profile...
#20tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:15pmYes, there is free speech in this country, but there is no reason to be so hateful against someone who did nothing to you. I guess it's good that now these comments are publicated. It has always happened, but I guess it's good that now people actually get a negative feedback for saying these awful things.
#21tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:19pm
Want to see something scary? Take a look at this poll on the Miami CBS affiliate.
They ask people what they think of the comments, and the winner by plurality (27 percent) say his comments are "what most people believe." An additional 14 percent call them courageous. That's a total of 41 percent. Don't ask me out of how many, because it doesn't say.
This is why this country embarrasses me so many times. It's somehow made being an uneducated, toothless cracker something to be proud of.
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#22tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:19pmThey should post his article next to someone in this country who espouses the same ideals about the minority group to which Miss Hardway belongs--sometimes people need to see it in black and white--you'll pardon that phrase....
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#23tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:22pmIt is okay, as I just learned in my math class, Plurality voting is one of the most inefficient methods of claiming a fair vote with multiple factors involved. Perhaps the Borda method would have concluded otherwise....but I doubt that. I have that much faith in America's acceptance of the people within their own country.
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#24tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:24pmBe sure to vote!
#26tim hardaway swallows
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:31pm
I have that much faith in America's acceptance of the people within their own country.
I'm glad you do. As someone who grew up in the South, I'm very often surprised at the sources of acceptance I find during my visits there, such as when I went to my high school reunion this year.
But the vast majority are still quite unpleasant and backward. The Klan's making a comeback, you know. And to lildogs' point, most of them would feel the same way about Hardaway as they would about me.
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