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TRIGGERnometry

NBA Star: Forced Out For Speaking Up

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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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.

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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?

Transcript

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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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