By MAX WINTERS
Published: 11:10 EDT, 31 May 2025 | Updated: 11:10 EDT, 31 May 2025
Former NBA star Jason Collins has married partner Brunson Green.
Collins became the NBA's first openly gay player when he came out in 2013 in an open letter published by Sports Illustrated.
The 46-year-old's basketball career spanned 13 seasons and six teams and included two trips to the NBA finals with the New Jersey Nets in 2002 and 2003.
Green, 57, is a Hollywood movie producer and earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination for the movie 'The Help'. The couple even had one of the stars at their wedding.
Octavia Spencer posted a picture of the happy couple walking down the aisle, captioning it: 'Welcome to the family @jasoncollins_98. You've chosen well, and so has he! Love you, B!'.
Her co-star, Viola Davis, added: 'Aaaaahh!!!! Congratulations' with a series of love heart emojis.
Former NBA star Jason Collins has announced he has married partner Brunson Green
Collins became the NBA's first openly gay player when he came out in 2013 in an open letter
Brunson's Hollywood movie friends Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis sent their congratulations
Collins and Green have been together since 2014, not long after he announced his retirement from the NBA.
They reportedly got engaged in 2023 at the Los Angeles Lakers Pride Night.
When Collins first came out, he also became the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.
'When I was younger, I dated women,' he wrote at the time. 'I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her.
'I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue.'
As well as playing for the Nets, Collins represented the Memphis Grizzlies, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards.