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Jason Collins: "Knucklehead" From Other Team Called Me Anti-Gay Slur

“One player, one knucklehead from another team,” Collins said in an interview with the Daily News. “He’s a knucklehead. So I just let it go. Again, that goes back to controlling what you can control. That’s how I conduct myself just being professional.”

Collins is bringing that mind-set into his first trip through multiple Bible Belt states this season, when the Nets leave Saturday for games in Dallas, New Orleans and Charlotte. He understands the insinuations when the trip is brought up as potentially worrisome, but Collins seems to be assuming the best while prepared for everything else.

“You can’t control what other people are going to do,” he said.

Collins is trying to keep the narrative about him to basketball, not activism, but he admits he's in a position of being a role model to the LGBT community.  “Whether you’re an athlete or a human being trying to empower and help others. I’m trying to, again, empower and help others any way that I can.”

Since Collin signed with the Nets, the team has been 10-3. They're up against the Boston Celtics tonight at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

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