‘I Have No Regrets’: Enes Kanter Freedom,
Ousted from NBA, Vows to Continue Speaking
Out Against CCP’s Abuses
Posted By: earlybird, 2/22/2022 9:39:37 PM
Enes Kanter Freedom, who was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is newly without a team in the NBA, received a warm welcome from Senators on Capitol Hill at an awards ceremony last week for his continued activism against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights abuses. When it comes to the NBA, “you can talk about all the social justice, all the injustices happening all around the world. But when it comes to China, you cannot speak up,” Freedom said at a ceremony hosted by advocacy group Committee on Present Danger: China in Washington on Feb. 17. “If you do, then you’d have to face the consequences.”
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Released by the Houston Rockets this month shortly after a trade by the Boston Celtics. A top player, Freedom believes that his firing had to do with his activism re the CCP… it is off-limits for the NBA.