NBA Star: Forced Out For Speaking Up - Enes Kanter Freedom

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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SPONSORED BY: ATHLETIC GREENS. Get a free 1-year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to https://athleticgreens.com/triggernometry/ Enes Kanter Freedom is a professional basketball player who last played for the Boston Celtics in the NBA. He was raised in Turkey and moved to the United States as a teenager. A center, Kanter played for five NBA teams during his eleven year career and represented the Turkish national team in international play between 2008-2015. He is an outspoken activist as regards the human rights violations of various dictatorships. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Intro 01:21 Enes Kanter’s Background 04:43 What Was it Like in the NBA? 06:44 What Does it Take to Make it in the NBA? 09:14 The Pressure of Elite Sport 13:01 How Enes Deals with Success 19:42 Sponsor Message: Athletic Greens 21:15 What Makes Top Level Athletes so Special? 27:10 Speaking Out about Turkey 36:44 How a Platform Provides a Sense of Duty 40:02 Speaking Out about China 43:27 "Take Off Your Shoes" 50:03 Is it Wrong to Bring Politics into Sport? 51:53 Did Enes Want to Fight the NBA? 54:56 BLM in the NBA 1:02:42 Does Enes Have Any Regrets? 1:04:05 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You criticize China, you criticize Nike, you're not going to play basketball every game.
0:05.6	You pissed off the Turkish person, but this wasn't enough, right?
0:08.8	Because you then had to piss off the Chinese Communist Party as well. Tell us about that.
0:12.5	And the more I studied, the more I realized, wow, this is just crazy and no one
0:19.6	had encouraged to talk about this issue. So I was like, from now on, I'm going to talk about
0:24.4	every dictatorship. Because I was in the hypocrisy, you know? So BLM and everything was for them,
0:31.4	it was just PR. I asked in one simple question, I was like, put yourself in their shoes.
0:37.1	If your mother, if your sister, if your daughter wasn't those concentration camps getting tortured
0:42.0	and rape every day, would you still pick money and business over your morals, values and principles?
0:48.4	They usually turn around a little. Every organization to see your companies has been bought
0:56.6	by someone bad out there.
1:09.5	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry on the road from the USA. I'm Francis Foster.
1:15.5	I'm Constantine Kishin. And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating
1:21.3	people. Our brilliant guest today is a former NBA star and now activist,
1:25.7	and this formerly cancer now freedom. Welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you for having me.
1:29.6	Listen man, thank you so much for coming. You're fasting. You just got off a plane. So we're
1:34.5	grateful for your time. I was actually a big fan of yours when you were playing in the NBA,
1:40.0	but a lot of our audience who are not that into sport may not know who you are.
1:44.3	So tell us your story. How what's your journey through life? Are you born in Turkey?
1:49.6	I actually born in Switzerland. You're born in Switzerland. I won't say anything else. You tell
1:54.0	all my father as a scientist and he was doing his master in Switzerland and that's where I'm born.
2:01.6	I literally stayed up for maybe nine months. I wish I stayed up longer so I could just speak
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