Born and raised in North Carolina, Reggie Bullock became a Mcdonald’s American at High School and had a great early basketball life that allowed him to play basketball at Chapel Hill for the University of North Carolina where he averaged ten points a game, two assists, and five rebounds a game. He’s been in the NBA since 2013 and hasn’t had the greatest NBA career despite being an impressive high school and college player as he hasn’t even made an all-star game. His Career high in points scored is 33 and scored 15 the other night in the Mavericks win over the 76ers the other night. However, this story isn’t quite about the former Tar Heels basketball life. His transgender sister was murdered in 2014 and the culprit was arrested and convicted a year later. In August 2016, Bullock said of his sister, “She lived as herself, she taught me how to be (myself). She taught me how to take care of the family… She was happy with being who she was. She wasn’t worried about how others felt about her. A person that can isolate the whole world out and not care about other people’s feelings is a strong person, to me. That was one of the biggest things that I got from her.”
Bullock is engaged in LGBT rights, volunteering to train gay and transgender youth alongside Jason Collins, a basketball player who came out as gay in a 2013 edition of Sports Illustrated. Bullock has also taken part with his son in the New York City LGBT Pride Marc. He was honored during the GLAAD Media Awards and is active in the charity “NBA Voices for LGBT Youth and Allies”. He also appears in a documentary from Vice Sports where he talks about his sister and his engagement towards the gay community in her memory. He is also involved in anti-bullying campaigns. Bullock recently won the NBA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award because of the aforementioned work and rightfully so. So, the former Tar Heel should get cheered on the next Mavericks game for his character, regardless of how well or bad he performs because he’s a stand-up guy, simply put.
