Enes Kanter Freedom goes scorched Earth on LeBron James, NBA with new revelations after WNBA Finals incident

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom has made fresh allegations about the league’s culture, criticising LeBron James and describing teammates’ reactions to his media appearances. His remarks followed a dispute at Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, where he said officials tried to move him from a courtside seat he had bought to a private suite; after an encounter with police at the arena entrance, he left.

Freedom said former Celtics teammate Dennis Schröder privately told him James’s advocacy served James himself, and he criticised James over gestures during a national anthem performance. Freedom also recounted being praised by teammates after a CNN interview about human rights abuses in China, then ignored after appearing on Fox News about the same issue. He claimed an assistant coach feared colleagues would learn that he had watched the Fox interview.