Jarron Collins says it's a no brainer
that he would support his twin brother's recent coming out.
Jarron and Jason played basketball
together at Stanford before playing in the NBA. Jason, who is 8
minutes older, recently came out gay on the cover of Sports
Illustrated.
The brothers appeared together
Wednesday on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and
discussed how Jason came out to Jarron
Jarron said he missed “red flags”
about Jason, such as making excuses for why he wasn't interested in
the women his brother and sister-in-law would set him up with on
dates.
“He was very direct about it,”
Jarron said. “He said, 'Jarron, I'm gay.' And I heard it but I
didn't quite register it. And I went about asking some of the
dumbest questions you could possible ask to someone who just told you
that they're gay.”
Questions such as “Are you sure?”
and “Since when?”
“He's my best friend and any time you
come out to someone, you always have that apprehension that they're
going to reject you, even though I knew that wasn't going to be the
case,” Jason said.
“He's my twin brother, of course I
was going to be supportive of him all the time,” Jarron said to a
round of applause from the audience.
To avoid any confusion, Kimmel gave
Jarron a T-shirt that read, “I'm the straight one.” (The video
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