I really wonder how long they will allow Enes Kanter to stay in the NBA,
He has taken shots at the league, LeBron and Michael Jordan. That is like the Holy Grail right there of people you can’t go after and still keep a job.
Here is the thing, some of his messages are on point, but how he delivers them is the problem. He needs to get powerful people like LeBron to work with him, not against him if he really wants to make some change.
The latest person he has gone after is Nets BILLIONAIRE owner Joe Tsai via NBCsports.com.
In the midst of the Daryl Morey-China-Hong Kong controversy, Nets owner Joe Tsai made the unbelievable claim that 1.4 billion Chinese citizens agree on… well, anything.
Specifically, Tsai said they all “stand united when it comes to the territorial integrity of China and the country’s sovereignty over her homeland.” That framing matched the Chinese government, which strong-armed Hong Kong protesters (who were trying to maintain and expand their freedoms). Tsai has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Celtics center Enes Kanter – who called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator” and called out LeBron James and Nike for their stances on China – zeroed in on Tsai with Boston playing the Nets last night.
Kanter called Tsai a cowherd and a puppet for the Chinese government.
He goes on to Tsai spinless.
Today, Kanter, who is about to be declared an official US Citizen on Monday, is legally changing his name to Enes Kanter Freedom.
Doesn’t have quite the ring to it as World B. Free, but I get where he is coming from.
Kanter can never go back to Turkey because the President there wants him executed for what he has said about the government.
Flip the pages for the Twitter reactions to Kanter changing his last name to Freedom.