We know the NBA is another league in the back pocket of China, just like so many other corporations in this country. The NBA, which has no problem kneeling during the National Anthem apparently threatened to ban a player named Enes Kanter (from Turkey) because he was wearing free the Uyghurs shoes.
Boston Celtics center and towering human rights advocate Enes Kanter has revealed that NBA representatives tried to get him to stop wearing shoes with messages that were critical of China, and even suggested that he could be banned from the league.
Kanter, who was born in oppressed Turkey, has engaged in a series of videos recently calling for China to stop oppressing the people of Tibet and for the communist giant to put an end to its forced labor camps in which the country’s Uyghur minorities are constantly shipped to serve as slave labor in China’s factories.
Now he says that NBA officials are attacking him in quiet warnings delivered out of the public eye.
During a recent interview with CNN, Kanter revealed that the NBA was attempting to scare him into putting an end to his focus on the league’s multibillion-dollar business partner, China. Kanter says that league officials told him he could be banned for criticizing China and wearing anti-China shoes.
Kanter also said that he asked NBA officials — including league chief Adam Silver — if he was breaking any actual league rules for behavior but was told he wasn’t.