PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu said Friday that he did not write the homophobic tweets from 2010 and 2011 that surfaced on his Twitter feed this past week.
The tweets were part of a collection of older, archived tweets by NBA players aggregated by a user on the social media platform Imgur, and reported by Blazers Edge, an SB Nation website that chronicles the Trail Blazers.
The spate of tweets under Aminu's handle were specifically homophobic. One suggested that anyone living with a gay roommate should commit suicide, and another asserted that the existence of a hotline for gay people in the Atlanta area was evidence that the city had "to [sic] many gays.