{"id":502037,"date":"2026-05-12T22:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=502037"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:25:44","slug":"jason-collins-the-nbas-first-openly-gay-player-has-passed-away-at-47-after-his-battle-with-cancer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=502037","title":{"rendered":"Jason Collins, the NBA\u2019s first openly gay player, has passed away at 47 after his battle with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1tbh2kd\/jason_collins_the_nbas_first_openly_gay_player\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/rUBZmaarewlp7eX3APE7DQ5SFWrxmc04jZ5l-_uNFnM.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=603c3b7e404b858f9a157ad705daa400d5b3be40\" alt=\"Jason Collins, the NBA\u2019s first openly gay player, has passed away at 47 after his battle with cancer\" title=\"Jason Collins, the NBA\u2019s first openly gay player, has passed away at 47 after his battle with cancer\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/itwas20yearsago2day\"> \/u\/itwas20yearsago2day <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48753479\/jason-collins-dies-47\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1tbh2kd\/jason_collins_the_nbas_first_openly_gay_player\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#032; submitted by &#032; \/u\/itwas20yearsago2day [link] &#032; [comments]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502047,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502037\/revisions\/502047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/502044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}