{"id":736013,"date":"2026-05-16T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/736013\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:57:33","slug":"jason-collins-dies-at-47-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/736013\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Collins dies at 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Earlier this week, former NBA player Jason Collins died at the age of 47 after a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47266076\/jason-collins-stage-4-glioblastoma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:battle with glioblastoma;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;battle with glioblastoma&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> battle with glioblastoma<\/a>, a form of brain cancer. He played 13 years in the NBA, including part of the 2012-13 season for the Washington Wizards where he played six games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While he was with the Wizards, Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/2013\/4\/29\/4282144\/jason-collins-gay-washington-wizards-nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced that he was openly gay;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;announced that he was openly gay&quot;}\" class=\"link \">announced that he was openly gay<\/a> and was the first NBA player to do so. He then played one more season with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn Nets;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brooklyn Nets&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>. As an NBA player, Collins\u2019 most noteworthy seasons were with the Nets earlier in his career when they made two NBA Finals appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">RIP Jason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, former NBA player Jason Collins died at the age of 47 after a battle with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3780],"tags":[1085,7,247,15171,4164,6,2065,472,87818,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-736013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-az","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-jason-collins","12":"tag-mandatory-credit","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-suns","16":"tag-us-airways-center","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-wizards","19":"tag-washingtonwizards","20":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116585079975839998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}