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Did China just take out an NBA player?

2 April 2022

2:19 PM

2 April 2022

2:19 PM

It sure looks like basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom has been blackballed by the NBA for his candor over the league’s cozy relationship with China — concentration camps filled with ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang and all.

Freedom, who earlier this year began wearing human rights messages on his game shoes illustrated by Chinese dissident artist Badiucao, became a vocal critic of the NBA’s cherrypicking of human rights issues.

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