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- NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced on Tuesday that former NBA center Jason Collins died at 47.
- Collins’s family said glioblastoma, disclosed in December, caused his death.
- He entered the NBA in 2001, became the first openly gay player in major U.S. men’s sports in 2013, retired in 2014, and married Brunson Green in May 2025 with support from President Barack Obama, Kobe Bryant and Tim Hardaway.
