Raptors to sign Jason Collins

David Stern wants and needs a team to step up and sign free agent Jason Collins to be on their roster for the 2013-14 season and this maybe silly but because Jason Collins is an openly gay basketball player who split his time with the Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards last season. The reason that Stern wants and needs a team to pick up Collins is because if a team does not than the media will be outside his New York office asking him if the reason that Jason Collins is not playing in the NBA is because he is gay and Stern does not want to answer that question. If u ask players privately in the NBA they would likely say that they would not want him on their team as they do not want to share a locker room with an openly gay guy. So here is where the Raptors come in they are playing in Toronto a place that would handle the story correctly and MLSE who owns the Raptors would be able to sell the story to the public and sell more tickets to games and put a positive spin on the story. Also David Stern has something that the Raptors want which is the 2016 All-Star game to celebrate the 20TH year of the Purple dinosaur called the Raptor and would trade having Collins on their team for that All-Star game. In the end David Stern gets what he wants (no headache) and the Raptors get an all-star game (why anyone would want an All-Star game is beyond me) Tom Mehegan