Suns Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Posted on | Sunday, May 22, 2011 | No Comments

A sleepy start to the Suns' offseason was shaken awake by a front-page story in the New York Times wherein Suns president Rick Welts announced that he was gay.

In many walks of life and many business situations, this news would have been met with a shrug. But in big-time professional sports, such admissions still raise eyebrows, even with the sparkling track record of the 58-year-old Welts, who was the No. 3 man in the NBA offices and the brains behind the concept for All-Star Weekend before moving to the Suns in 2002.

Welts said the reaction to the story and his announcement has been overwhelmingly positive. He got texts from league heavyweights, such as close friends Bill Russell and Charles Barkley, and others who were quick to publicly back his decision.

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