Enes Kantor Freedom on how the NBA let him down
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It is a rare individual who will give up a pro basketball career in order to do the right thing. Enes (rhymes with “tennis”) Kantor Freedom is one of those people. The NBA player, who was raised in Turkey, has been shunned by the NBA for speaking out about human rights. He visits with Michele.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tofoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious metals. |
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| 0:14.9 | Coming up, we're going to talk to a man who basically sacrificed a career in the NBA to do the right thing. |
| 0:23.6 | Would you have the same courage? |
| 0:25.5 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:28.5 | For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. |
| 0:33.2 | She started very young. |
| 0:34.5 | She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball |
| 0:39.2 | national championships. And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya |
| 0:45.4 | thinks we need a serious dose of sanity. This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the |
| 0:53.8 | sanest people on planet Earth. |
| 0:56.2 | Michelle Tofoya. |
| 1:00.1 | I never like wasting time on this podcast, so let's jump right in with Ennis Cantor Freedom. |
| 1:05.8 | Formerly Ennis Cantor, legally changed his last name to Freedom. It's a great story. Ennis, I can't thank you |
| 1:13.1 | enough. I want to start from the beginning. Those who know you have seen you play basketball |
| 1:17.3 | in the NBA. Those who don't know you should know you used to play basketball in the NBA. |
| 1:23.1 | And right now you're not. And I think you and I probably both know why. |
| 1:28.9 | But how would you explain to this audience why you're not playing in the NBA? |
| 1:35.7 | You're what, 30? |
| 1:37.5 | 30. |
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