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Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom and Natasha Cloud yell at each other Sunday night during the second half of the Sky's game against the Fever in Chicago. Michael Reaves / Getty images
No surprise, Enes Kanter Freedom didn’t come to protect women. Freedom and women have been in conflict for a long time, in society and now in the actions of a man who made it his legal last name.
The former NBA player walked into Wintrust Arena on Sunday night with a T-shirt and a grievance to sell, dressing it up as concern for women’s sports. The shirt cloaking his 6-foot-10 frame read “WOMAN noun. adult human female.” That’s a slogan built for agitation and not conversation. He wore it into a building where actual women were about to play in a professional basketball league that women have spent 30 years building, acting as if their game needed his definition to fortify legitimacy. He wasn’t at the Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game to defend women’s sports against transgender participation. He wasn’t there to support or persuade. He was there to be seen.
Freedom came to taunt. Freedom came to be ejected.
