{"id":139776,"date":"2025-09-13T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139776\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:47:12","slug":"jason-collins-shares-news-hes-being-treated-for-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139776\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Collins shares news he&#8217;s being treated for brain cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Collins, the basketball player who made history in 2013 when he became the first US NBA player to publicly share that he was gay, has announced he\u2019s being treated for brain cancer. <\/p>\n<p>The news was made public by the National Basketball Association who distributed a statement on his behalf. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breastscreen.health.wa.gov.au\/Breast-screening\/LGBTQIA-plus\/Screening-Saves-Lives-campaign?utm_source=outinperth&amp;utm_medium=webcampaign&amp;utm_campaign=screening24&amp;utm_id=nhmscancer&amp;utm_content=zone1\" aria-label=\"Cancer-Screening-Resize-GIF[1]\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cancer-Screening-Resize-GIF1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"114\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNBA Ambassador and 13-year\u00a0NBA veteran Jason Collins<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinknews.com\/2025\/05\/27\/nba-player-jason-collins-marries-partner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>is currently undergoing treatment for a brain tumour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJason and his family welcome your support and prayers and kindly ask for privacy as they dedicate their attention to Jason\u2019s health and well-being.\u201d\u00a0 it read. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jason-Collins.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111957\"  \/>Jason Collins. <\/p>\n<p>Collins retired from playing professional basketball in 2014, just 18 months after he shared the news that he is gay. <\/p>\n<p>His 13 year professional career saw him play with many teams including the New Jersey Nets, plus stints with Memphis, Minnesota, Atlanta, Boston and Washington. He shared news of his sexuality via a personal story which appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Collins is 46 years old. Earlier this year he married film producer Brunson Green, the couple had been together for over a decade.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Collins, the basketball player who made history in 2013 when he became the first US NBA player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-139776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}