Enes Kanter Freedom is insisting that reports suggesting the WNBA will make him ineligible to play in the league are “fake news.”
On Monday, several retailers reported that the ex-NBA middle would not be allowed into the league’s draft — with one supply telling Front Office Sports that the WNBA is “not going to give oxygen to efforts designed to mock the league or use this topic to demean and marginalize others.”
But Freedom advised The Post’s Stefan Bondy that nobody from the league had knowledgeable him of any ineligibility.
Former basketball participant and human rights activist Enes Kanter Freedom is seen prior to a sport between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky at Wintrust Arena. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect
“I haven’t heard anything from the WNBA officials yet,” he said. “Fake News!”
Freedom and Royce White, a 2012 first-round decide by the NBA’s Rockets, declared themselves ladies and eligible for the WNBA draft amid the ongoing debate surrounding transgender athletes being allowed to compete in women’ and ladies’s sports activities.
A league supply described Freedom and White’s declarations as “simply publicity stunts” to FOS.
The WNBA has become the battleground in a tradition conflict ignited when Fever participant Sophie Cunningham advised ESPN in an interview revealed in July she desires “to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”
Freedom was ejected from Wintrust Arena on Sunday night time after getting into a verbal altercation with Sky star Natasha Cloud during a sport against the Fever.
Freedom wore a shirt to the sport that learn, “WOMAN noun. adult human female.”
Former basketball participant Enes Kanter Freedom and Natasha Cloud #9 of the Chicago Sky yell at one another. Getty Images
The ex-NBA participant claimed to several media retailers that Cloud had shouted at him, “[Cunningham] is not going to sleep with you.”
In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, he repeated the claim, to the bewilderment of the host, who requested, “Are you trying to sleep with Sophie Cunningham?”
Freedom denied that he was.
“Definitely not, definitely not. I’m going to make this very clear, definitely not,” he said on the program.