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Al-Farouq Aminu Denies Authoring Anti-Gay Tweets

The Trail Blazers forward talks to Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN.com, says account was hacked.

Earlier this week Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu came under scrutiny as homophobic tweets from 2010 and 2011 surfaced as part of a larger collection of older twitter submissions by NBA players.

Today Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN posted a response from Aminu during which he said the contents of the tweets "saddened" him but that he disavowed authoring them.

On content:

"I hope it didn't offend anyone or that anyone thought that those are my ideas or my thoughts or anything like that.