{"id":1077195,"date":"2021-12-02T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077195"},"modified":"2021-12-02T15:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:58:49","slug":"enes-kanter-freedom-calls-on-leagues-to-take-notes-on-wta-pulling-out-of-china-over-peng-shuai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/enes-kanter-freedom-calls-on-leagues-to-take-notes-on-wta-pulling-out-of-china-over-peng-shuai\/","title":{"rendered":"Enes Kanter Freedom Calls on Leagues to &#039;Take Notes&#039; on WTA Pulling Out of China over Peng Shuai"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenes-kanter-freedom-calls-on-leagues-to-take-notes-on-wta-pulling-out-of-china-over-peng-shuai%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077195&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Enes-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Thursday, Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom urged other professional leagues in the United States to \u201ctake notes\u201d on the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA), which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/01\/womens-tennis-association-suspends-all-tournaments-china-treatment-peng-shuai\/\">canceled<\/a> all of its tournaments scheduled in China over concerns about the safety of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish-born NBA star, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/28\/report-enes-kanter-legally-changes-last-name-to-freedom-ahead-of-us-citizenship\/\">changed<\/a> his surname to \u201cFreedom\u201d after becoming a U.S. citizen, praised the WTA for&nbsp;putting \u201cmorals, values and principles\u201d over money. He called on other leagues to take the WTA\u2019s example and take a stand against China.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhile we know that she is alive, everybody knows that she\u2019s not safe. She\u2019s not free to talk. She\u2019s not free to travel,\u201d Freedom outlined on Fox Business Network\u2019s \u201cMornings with Maria.\u201d \u201cAnd, you know, China\u2019s Communist Party is trying to control the narrative about her, and you know \u2026 it gives me so much hope and motivation when the Tennis Association put that comment out there. I feel like every major league in the United States should take notes and take examples of what WTA is doing. It was amazing. I applaud them for it for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cIt is so important to not bow down to this, you know, dictatorship regime, and this cultish regime, because they do not care about money. WTA did not care about anything but morals, values and principles. So, I feel like every major sport in America should take an example of what WTA is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be the voice of all those innocent people out there who don\u2019t have a voice, and this platform is given to us by God,\u201d Freedom added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker&nbsp;on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom urged other professional leagues in the United States to \u201ctake notes\u201d on the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA), which recently canceled all of its &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}