Former player Enes Kanter Freedom, who has suggested he was cut over criticism of Beijing, sounds off on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" obtained exclusive recordings of NBA officials that suggest the league was trying to tamp down on former Houston Rockets center Enes Kanter Freedom's criticism of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, to stay in Beijing's good graces.
Kanter Freedom, who famously changed his last name in reverence to his adopted country of the United States, joined Carlson to react, after damning recordings of figures including the players' association's general counsel surfaced.
In one recording, Ron Klempner, the NBPA lawyer, said he had just spoken with the league's counsel at the time, and that he wanted to have a "conversation about their concern right now is not so much what you are saying off the court but what it is that you're saying on the court when you step onto the court." Kanter Freedom has worn several NBA-rule-abiding but anti-CCP slogans such as "Free Tibet" and "Slave Labor" – the latter also directed at shoemaker Nike. NBA ‘BEGGED’ ENES FREEDOM TO TAKE OFF SHOES THAT CRITICIZED CHINA LeBron James #23 and Enes Kanter #00 exchange words at Madison Square Garden. (Elsa/Getty) Another recording depicted Bill Clinton-linked Milwaukee Bucks owner Marc Lasry explaining how China won't do business with the league if athletes criticize their government, saying at one point "it's business." "China's taken a very aggressive stance, which is ‘if you want to b---h about us, you’re out – which I get it, it's business," he said.
Kanter Freedom said the recordings prove that China rules the NBA. "This is the evidence of how a 100% American-made company is run by the