Celtics games are blacked out in China after Boston center Enes Kanter demands freedom for Tibet and calls President Xi a 'brutal dictator'

Daily Mail UK ^ | 10/21/2021 | REUTERS and ALEX RASKIN

[Kid Shelleen]

In what could become the NBA's second PR crisis in China in as many years, the Boston Celtics games are being blacked out in the country after team center and human rights advocate Enes Kanter voiced his support for a free Tibet and criticized 'brutal dictator' Xi Jinping.

Kanter, who has also opposed the government in his native Turkey, tweeted a two-minute video of himself expressing support for Tibet and wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the image of the Dalai Lama, its exiled spiritual leader.

'I'm here to add my voice and speak out about what is happening in Tibet,' Kanter said. 'Under the Chinese government's brutal rule, Tibetan people's basic rights and freedoms are non-existent.

[Kid Shelleen]

Finally a SJW who actually wants justice. Taking on the NBA and China in one amazing video embedded in article.

[1Old Pro]

Nice

[brownsfan]

Kanter will find himself on the injured list very soon. Then, magically, out of basketball.

The NBA desires Chinese money more than anything.

[DesertRhino]

Nike dominates the NBA. And Nike is communist Chinese.

[Yo-Yo]

...team center and human rights advocate Enes Kanter voiced his support for a free Tibet and criticized 'brutal dictator' Xi Jinping.

NO NIKE FOR YOU!

[bigfootbob]

LeBron say you’re right, but hush up.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Celtics games are blacked out in China after Boston center Enes Kanter demands freedom for Tibet and calls President Xi a 'brutal dictator'

Didn't someone fill Kanter in on what you're allowed to say in the NBA? You can only call Republican American presidents "brutal dictators", and the only country you're allowed to criticize is the US.

[MRadtke]

“Boston Celtics games are being blacked out in the country after team center and human rights advocate Enes Kanter voiced his support for a free Tibet and criticized ‘brutal dictator’ Xi Jinping.”

Kind of proves his point.

[chajin]

At least we know that Canter is a not-Xi

[allendale]

Would not be surprised to see this guy badly injured by some NBA goon taking a cheap shot.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Finally a SJW who actually wants justice. “

The NBA will get rid of him soon. They want their Communist China money.

[SmokingJoe]

LeBron James will get a call from the NBA and then send out a,l statement of support for Xi and the Chinese government as usual.

[sphinx]

If the NBA has any integrity at all, it will pull all its games from the Chinese market. Not holding my breath.

[AppyPappy]

The NBA is going to have to squash this protest but not the other protests

[SmokingJoe]

He’s from Turkey. He can still play in Europe and make plenty of money.

[KC_Conspirator]

I see his endorsements also vanishing into thin air.

Just ask soccer star Mezut Ozil what happens when you speak out on China.

[Pikachu_Dad]

… or move the bad sponsored products of the table for a bottle of water !

[PGR88]

LOL! Every NBA players holds the nuclear self-destruct button of the NBA in their own hands.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Kanter is a problem for them because unlike LeBron, he doesn’t have a massive Nike shoe deal with which the Chinese can threaten him. And he’s near the end of his career so he’s not too worried about being blackballed. It’s no skin off his back or money out of his pocket if he ticks of the Rec Chinese.

[Vermont Lt]

I watched some of the game last night. As a Celtics fan, I would suggest we did China a favor.