Jason Collins, NBA’s first openly gay player, says he has a year to live after brain tumor diagnosis

Dec 12, 2025 - 01:00
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Jason Collins, NBA’s first openly gay player, says he has a year to live after brain tumor diagnosis
  • Collins discloses stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosis

  • Former NBA trailblazer pursuing new therapies

  • Symptoms appeared and worsened rapidly

Jason Collins, the former NBA player who became the first openly gay man to play in a major US pro sports league, said Thursday he’s battling “one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer”.

Collins, who revealed in a brief statement in September that he was undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, said in an interview with ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne published Thursday that he has stage 4 glioblastoma. Continue reading...

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