00:11That's what basketball was for me.
00:12If I'm going to be sticking out, it would be being outstanding rather than being freakish.
00:24They say controversial, yeah I'm controversial by birth.
00:28I was born a communist country, I defected, and I'm gay.
00:31It's like, I got no chance to not be an activist.
00:38And I said, you can't do that, it's never been done.
00:40And I go, well I don't care what we do, I don't care about anything.
00:43I said, I want to tell the truth. I've been outed and I'm not going to lie.
00:51This was so hard to deal with, and so frightening.
01:03The playbook was, you come out a couple years after you retire, and I didn't want that to be me.
01:14Some people say, what if somebody doesn't like you anymore because you're out.
01:19I'm not going to give them something fake just so somebody don't like me.
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