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Quote: Phoenix Suns’ Rick Welts Reveals He Is Gay

By Megan Friedman | @megancarol | May 16, 2011 | +
AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace
AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace
In this March 19, 2010, photo, Rick Welts, president and CEO of the Phoenix Suns NBA basketball team, participates a discussion at Arizona State's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix

“This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.”

— RICK WELTS, president and chief executive of the Phoenix Suns, on the reluctance to discuss sexual orientation in basketball; in a New York Times article on Sunday, Welts officially announced he is gay (via NYT)

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