![]() There were also dozens of other tweets by Craig with various references to “gay,” “no homo” and other problematic messages. It makes you wonder, has someone like that really changed?” ![]() “If someone talks about putting a bullet in someone’s head, that’s beyond ‘I hate gay people,’” high school basketball coach Anthony Nicodemo, who is gay, said. The tweets got attention when a young gay fan of the NBA searched through the Twitter feeds of dozens of current NBA players, finding that at least 40 of them had shared messages that would rate anywhere between a one and a one million on the John Rocker scale of homophobia.Ĭraig’s messages were the worst of the worst. “Suns Legacy Partners, LLC, which includes the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury, stands with the LGBTQIA community to celebrate equality and denounce discrimination of any kind,” Suns spokesperson Dean Stoyer shared with Outsports. The Suns in a statements seem to have denounced Craig’s tweets as “discrimination” in a tepid response sent to Outsports: Outsports reached out to the Suns for comment from the team and Craig. Torrey Craig of the Phoenix Suns has been publicly silent about his tweets from a decade ago saying “I hate gay dudes” and retweeting a post about gay men needing “a bullet” in their head.
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