She spent the weekend demonstrating proper pivoting techniques, surveying matches, swatting flies, and sweating in the Senegalese summer heat with aspiring basketballer players.

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Basketballer Jason Collins recently made history by becoming the first openly gay NBA player, while the NHL has drawn plaudits for its anti-homophobia work.

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Haney has some history in shaping unpredictable talents, having previously worked with former basketballer Charles Barkley and boxer Sugar Ray Leonard among his celebrity TV clients.

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An angry, hectored basketballer assaults his coach, and within days Johnnie Cochran turns up at the player's side and the airwaves are filled with agonized exegeses of the black player-white coach issue.

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