Enes Freedom makes point about joining WNBA, reveals what his name would be

Enes Freedom told Fox News Digital he was ‘just in shock this even is a debate.’

NBA free agent Enes Freedom went viral earlier this week when he questioned when the outrage would begin about transgender females playing in women’s sports. 

He asked whether he should "put on a wig identify as a woman and start dominating the WNBA?"

Freedom told Fox News Digital in a recent interview he was trying to make a point.

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Enes Kanter Freedom warming up before a game against the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center in Los Angeles. (John W. McDonough/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

"If you read my tweet, I pretty much said it. Biological males don't belong in women’s spaces. I’m talking about restrooms. I’m talking about shower rooms. I’m talking about locker rooms, I’m talking about sports pretty much," he explained. 

"I’m just in shock this even is a debate. There are many cases out there in restrooms, in locker rooms. Females are very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable. I believe it was in Virginia there was one case. It was a rape case I believe.

"So, I was like, enough is enough, male athletes should just go out there and support that cause. No male athlete out there would do that because they’re scared of getting canceled. So you know what, I was like, I’ll be the first one."

The WNBA logo on a basketball during opening tipoff between the Seattle Storm and the Connecticut Sun at Climate Pledge Arena June 20, 2023, in Seattle. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Freedom then joked on Instagram and X, the company formerly known as Twitter, about the wig. He pasted a photo of himself in a wig over a picture of Wilt Chamberlain when Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single