Jason Collins, the 13-year NBA star who became the league’s first openly gay player, has died. He was 47. His twin brother, Jarron Collins, and sister-in-law, Elsa Marie Collins, announced the news on ...

The NBA's first openly gay player, Jason Collins, is dead at 47 years of age. He is the twin brother of former Phoenix Suns player Jarron Collins.

Collins, who had served as a league ambassador after his playing days, was battling brain cancer.

Collins and his twin brother, Jarron, arrived at Stanford as heralded recruits from Southern California’s Harvard-Westlake High School in the fall of 1997.

Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player, has died at 47 after a battle with glioblastoma. Look back at his time on the court and the tributes that followed.

Former NBA player Jason Collins died at 47 after battling brain cancer, leaving behind husband Brunson Green and twin brother Jarron Collins.

Collins announced his diagnosis in September 2025, four months after he married film producer Brunson Green.

The 47-year-old athlete was fighting glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer, when he passed away May 12.

The former Harvard-Westlake High and Stanford star dies after an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of a brain tumor, his family announced Tuesday.

Jason changed lives in unexpected ways and was an inspiration to all who knew him and to those who admired him from afar,” his family said ...

Jason Collins, a former Stanford basketball star who became the NBA’s first openly gay player during his 13-year professional career, died from brain cancer at the age of 47. Collins’ family announced ...

Collins shared late last year that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.