Wed Feb 16, 2022 – 3:15 pm ESTWed Feb 16, 2022 – 3:36 pm EST
HOUSTON (LifeSiteNews) — A propaganda outlet for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is applauding the NBA’s Houston Rockets for releasing Enes Kanter Freedom.
Freedom, who changed his last name after becoming an American citizen, has been an outspoken critic of human rights abuses by the CCP. The National Basketball Association (NBA) has close ties and investments in China, which the league sees as a long-term source for profit.
The league infamously distanced itself from Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in 2019 after he posted a social media comment in support of democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Now the Rockets have let go of Freedom after acquiring him in a trade from the Boston Celtics, and some conservatives have raised concerns that he is being blacklisted. Comments from a CCP media outlet are not allaying those concerns.
“Anti-China NBA player mocked after being waived by Houston Rockets, the Global Times wrote on February 11. The outlet called him a “below-average player” and said Freedom “has been ignorant and arrogant on China’s core interests and internal affairs.”
The Global Times said Freedom
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