Ex-NBA Star Hardaway: "I Hate Gay People"

16. What a f***ing ignorant piece of sh*t. He probably loves c**k that's why he said that. He's not sorry he said that. I hate when famous people say sh*t and then say oh I didn't mean it like that. Like "with all due respect...your mother's a whore." Just stick by with what you mean. I think most n*****s are dumb, I'm not sorry for that, it's my opinion!

Posted at 12:47PM on Feb 15th 2007 by He's a dumb n*****

17. Everyone has a right to their own opinion, sometimes things are better left unsaid though. If this is how he feels - good for him for sticking to his guns, but if he doesn't want to suffer the meida backlash, I guess he shouldn't have said this on the air.

Posted at 12:50PM on Feb 15th 2007 by LLS

18. Don't worry. He'll enter rehab and all will be right in the sports world again.

Posted at 12:46PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Dottie

19. Don't worry. He'll enter rehab and all will be right in the sports world again.

Posted at 12:46PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Dottie

20. what a tool this bozo is, can you imagine if someone said i hate blacks???? and how about eddie murphy's mr. wong from his new movie?? can you imagine someone wearing black face and acting stupid in a major movie??? i guess if your black you can be racist but the rest of us can't be...

Posted at 12:47PM on Feb 15th 2007 by danny g

21. I think it's funny. Now a days if you say anything negative about the gays you get beat up pretty bad. Just goes to show you the power of the media and hollywood trying to make it normal which it isn't. His use of the word hate is the only thing that I think he said that was wrong. If you don't like gay people that's fine. But to say you hate them yes that's wrong. Remember being black isn't a choice, gay is!

Posted at 12:54PM on Feb 15th 2007 by sthoover

22. But if someone were to make it known that they hated black people, I bet he'd be the first to jump down their throats.

Posted at 1:19PM on Feb 15th 2007 by keonli

23. Comment 6 is AWESOME! (Not that I agree at all or that I think the commenter is in any way serious, but it should make that bigot and people like him think about things before they open their mouths. Certainly a MAJORITY of people used to feel this way about Blacks, and many still do). P.S. I love "Black people" in brackets as a clever substitute for the word that would have made the point even stronger without actually using that word.

Posted at 1:19PM on Feb 15th 2007 by John

24. Now look at all the comments calling him a N-word. He didn't use the faggot word, did he? gay a choice being black not.

Posted at 1:18PM on Feb 15th 2007 by sthoover

25. Like anyone gives a sh*t what he thinks! I don't like NBA players or any other athlete that makes the kind of money that he does to play sports. Get a real job and shut the the hell up! No one cares!

Posted at 4:18PM on Feb 15th 2007 by K. Jackson

26. Hardaway’s rant sounds like he is a closeted queen.

Posted at 1:24PM on Feb 15th 2007 by imblackinflorida

27. I support freedom of speech. Does anyone have a delusion that everyone loves them? I know some people that don't like/hate me. Just because they are too "politically correct" to say it doesn't change the fact. This man should be celebrated for defying the "political correctness" that has suppressed free speech for so long.

Posted at 12:58PM on Feb 15th 2007 by John

28. Don't worry. He'll enter rehab and all will be right with the sports world again.

Posted at 12:51PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Dottie

29. Don't worry. He'll enter rehab and all will be right with the sports world again.

Posted at 12:51PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Dottie

30. I don't like Black people and I don't like to be around Black people. I am Blackophobic ... [Black people] shouldn't be in the world or in the United States

Posted at 12:52PM on Feb 15th 2007 by lizzieb