The Turkish center, already harsh critic of Erdogan in the past, posted a video in defense of Tibet in which he attacks the Chinese president. Immediate retaliation: the green-and-whites’ matches will no longer be broadcast. The Morey case in 2019
“Dear brutal dictator Xi Jinping and Chinese government: Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people!”. With these words, his social channels Enes Kanter, center of the Celtics, returns to make noise for his political positions, alongside the oppressed peoples. The 29-year-old Turkish on his Instagram and Facebook channels has posted a video and a photo of the shoes with which he took the field in the first game of the season at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks. The retaliation of the Chinese government was not long in coming: television blackout of all the games of the green-and-whites.
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“Free Tibet – you could read on the colorful shoes with the typical Tibetan iconography worn by Kanter – More than 150 Tibetan people burned themselves alive! Hoping that such an act will raise awareness in Tibet. I am with my Tibetan brothers and sisters and I support their demands for freedom “, Kanter wrote again. The Celtics player is no stranger to battles of this kind, as he cannot actually return to Turkey being a fierce opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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In 2019 it was the turn of the then gm of the Rockets, Daryl Morey, to find himself at the center of a controversy with the Beijing regime. The executive had posted a tweet in which he defended the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, which were violently repressed by the Chinese. Although that tweet was quickly deleted, an uproar broke out in China that cost the NBA hundreds of millions of dollars. Even then the Rockets competitions (which for years were the most loved team by Chinese supporters as the one where Yao Ming played his entire career) were obscured by local TV. On the Tencent platform, the giant web partner of the NBA, from today the Celtics matches are no longer available, like those of the 76ers, the current Morey team.
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