Homophobic tweets surface from 2009
A post by imgur user JewishDoggy has revealed a history of tweets by Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu involving questionable and disturbing statements about homosexuality. The posts 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.
Circa 2016, Collection of Old Tweets starring Damian Lillard
Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu on Friday denied being the author of the homophobic tweets from to that surfaced on his Twitter feed this past week. A post by imgur user JewishDoggy has revealed a history of tweets by Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu involving questionable and disturbing statements about homosexuality. Several remain live on his official account.
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We have no idea how Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu views gay people today. But tweets of his from to that have just surfaced showed him to be homophobic back then. The posts were a collection of older, archived tweets by NBA players. I know people that are [gay] and family members that are [gay]. Did Al
Trail Blazers player Al-Farouq Aminu has seemingly gotten away with his tweets of six years ago by simply deleting them without comment. What is the statute of limitations on anti-gay comments and tweets?. . AL
“Al Farouq-Aminu seems to think about gay sex more than I do and I have gay sex all the time”. . Al
Tweets from Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu back in 20resurfaced on people’s feeds that showed he might be homophobic. The posts were a collection of older, archived tweets by NBA players. On of his tweets suggested that anyone living with a gay roommate should commit suicide. . Al
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.". . 
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Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu has denied he had anything to do with a handful of homophobic tweets posted to his Twitter account in and A controversy grew in recent days. .