Enes Kanter Freedom ejected from WNBA game after confrontation with Natasha Cloud
I love* the Athletic framing last night’s drama as “Natasha Cloud was the aggressor” when a 6’10” man WALKED ONTO THE COURT at a game in which he was not playing in order to harass women. *hate
Erika M.57Someone tried to reply “he didn’t walk on the floor” lol did we not see the same video of him stepping over photographers and walking onto the baseline?
Elaine Mejia16He definitely was not giving "protect women" vibes...I mean we already knew he didn't give a shit about that so it's helpful that he made it even more obvious. T Cloud worth a million of him
Lynn Bird16When they came for the WNBA they made a big mistake.
pedro-sandoval.bsky.social15That dude should be banned from attending any professional sports matches.
rogerc63.bsky.social12The Sky left it to a player to confront him, from the floor, during the game. #pathetic. Stand up, people. He should have been stopped at the door.
mxhrad12Seriously, at best, the media calls this a “conflict” as if both people were responsible equally, when it was one washed up asshole who interrupted a professional game to win points for bigots.
Valerie Valkyrie32Transphobes: we want to "protect"* women's sports from "men"* * harass trans people while cheering for a literal man trying to start a fight with a female player *hypothetical trans women we've created as a scapegoat in our heads
Along Came Poly-4-The-W13WE REPEAT - THE ATHLETIC IS BASURA 🗑 THE ATHLETIC IS BASURA 🚮
Chunkin’ Deuces✌️9“I’m here to protect women and women’s sports!” - 6’10” guy trying to fight a #WNBA player during a game
Paul Fischer2Absolute garbage from the Athletic. Cloud was at her workplace being harassed by a giant cunt who has publicly said that if trans people have rights, then he gets to be in women’s locker rooms. How do you frame this any other way?
Arena ban "TBD"? Amazing players, amazing sport, the W as an organization is a joke. Banning Kanter from games is the easiest decision ever. www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...
Rodger Sherman339impressive that W management is currently pleasing absolutely nobody, like they haven't done the right thing, but they also haven't appeased the right-wingers who are also mad at them for different reasons! centrism for the L
Pat Clearly105I think the problem with Kanter and the people throwing stuff on the court is that we aren’t calling it what it is: workplace harassment. The basketball court is the players’ office and if you did that at somebody’s desk you’d be out of there yesterday.
Sprout God50Like... game this out. The alternative is literally him sitting courtside and doing this again? Could not POSSIBLY be an easier decision
kickpuncher.bsky.social25NBA "fans" who get into altercations with players get banned, and none of them are on a campaign to undermine the league. Having a precedent makes it even more of a no-brainer.
Neil21He threatened a professional at her place of work! He needs to be banned.
Anik21Jason in all fairness we have a decade of evidence that placating these grifters solves everything right?
Luke O'Neil429This league is fucking up so bad dude. They're not even drawing a hard line protecting their (zero trans by the way) women players from abuse because they're afraid it will look like they're tangentially standing up for trans people in the minds of these freaks.
Molly Knight267Keep this man away from women and girls.
Patrick Cosmos149It’s worth mentioning that they also didn’t do shit last year when people were throwing dildos at the players and issued the most milquetoast statement in the world. Ironically one of the people speaking up about it at the time, saying it turned the league into a joke, was Sophie Cunningham
Patrick Cosmos104Very funny for your statement to be "The gigantic mentally ill man invading the court and physically threatening the women of our league might be banned we think maybe. He's certainly not allowed to play for us"
Bruce Arthur73The WNBA needs needs new leadership very badly
Jesse Hawken53they have to take action against this guy because if they don't, someone else will ramp it up next time. or maybe he will. they have to discourage the creeps from being creeps
Jane39gotta just ban him outright and preemptively ban Royce white while they're at it
A K37It really feels like the league is turtling up on some “Republicans watch WNBA games too” shit, even though it seems patently obvious they do not bsky.app/profile/netw...
Otto von Biz Markie20Cathy has got to go
Hotep Kevin Nash19It's a ridiculously simple decision to make. Some guy comes down to your court to create a hostile presence for your players and fans and you don't make an immediate and decisive decision? If this was Enes Kanter, divorced plumber with 2 DUIs, he'd be banned for life!
If everyone can call him Enes Kanter Freedom then they can call trans people by their chosen names too
Hey @wnba.com the best time to ban Enes Kanter Freedom from all your arenas is right now today. He put players at risk and his little stunt will embolden others to act in a similar manner. Are we going to wait for a player to be attacked on the court to take action?
NotCIAreally12Whenever We turn a blind eye to a violation instead of addressing the situation it emboldens the violation to be more frequent and more extreme. This is true with personal relationships and humanity in general. One of the most universal truths of humanity.
Serpent Charmer11He could have stayed if he'd simply watched the game. But no, he had to start jawing w/ a player, and even then security didn't do a thing until *he took steps toward* Natasha Cloud, a person who is a foot shorter & likely 100 lbs. lighter than him. He's now a threat to all WNBA players.
Edward Brennan4If it wasn't a former NBA player the @wnba.com and the nba both would have banned this jackass yesterday. If you disrupt a game as a spectator in such a manner you deserve a ban. Not the time or place. Rules should be applied fairly and decisively. But then, watching their refs this is about par.
Mark Roddy3Seriously. How is he not banned?
Grae Hall2I fear there is terrible violence brewing from truly awful men the longer these attacks on the WNBA go on unchecked
AJ Nyx (she/her)1Today is the second best time to ban him. The best time was right on the spot. Instead, he left the floor arrogantly grinning.
Apparently the dildos are throwing themselves on the court at WNBA games now.
jmarty6263.bsky.social6He outweighed her by a bunch, but I think she could have held her own if it had come to punches. Has he been banned yet, or do we not do that anymore? Guarantee we are going to get copycats.
Molotov and the Mixologists🏳️🌈4I don't follow the WNBA or the NBA for that matter. I know that if you throw shit on to the field\ice, etc, you will be ejected. Does that not happen at WNBA games? If not, why not?
Catherine3And the dildos are getting tossed out
Mimi3The NBA should ban him too- what a shitty thing to do
TaimaHawk 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 💙💚3I thought this ass clown was banned for life from all basketball. Why is he in this game?
Raymond Conway 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️3Somebody wants an invitation to the Whitehouse!!
Ginnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app9Fuck the patriarchy and toxic masculinity! Fuck misogyny and Know-Your-Place aggression!
Alice3This is what we refer to as a Grade A cunt. All the trans bigots claim that men are trying to go into female spaces and look here, this washed up loser has the nerve to do this at a pro WNBA game! He should have been jailed!
Bryan2Ban this POS from all WNBA & NBA games for life.
My latest piece for @thenation.com about Enes Kanter and these Right Wing Hordes, stalking The WNBA www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Richard Summerbell6The objective of discrediting women in sports entirely, except selected 'nice' sports approved by the Heritage Foundation, also has to be taken very seriously in this far right campaign. (See linked post to which my post, below, responds) bsky.app/profile/acre...
Lyle Milton3A grown-ass man doing this shit? What the hell is wrong with men today???
Michael2I think Kanter is jealous these ladies have a professional basketball career whereas he does not.
Marshall Julie1Does Enes Kanter think she will be drafted after not playing organized basketball for 4+ years? She has another think coming to her
Valerie Valkyrie291to all you wishy washy, both sidesing losers pretending to be journalists for clicks: THIS is how you write a title about all this bullshit. THIS is how you properly contextualize what is happening for your audience!
Victor Luftig34"These figures on the right are being exposed as the losers, con-artists,and social parasites that they are.It’s clear that they care nothing about women’s sports.No, their goal goes way beyond sports.It’s about eradicating trans people—not just from public life,but life altogether.This is obvious."
Spider-Man: Pre-owned Day25I want to mention that he has Sexual Harassment allegations for propositioning women at human rights conferences and said they made it up as an op from authoritarian countries www.notus.org/policy/human...
Bill Shea15This is excellent and worth your time
Tim Reierson2"[WNBA league] executives are fecklessly going along with marching orders to “offend” as few people as possible. But now they need to stand with their fans, who long have seen WNBA games as a queer friendly space."
Enes Kanter is one of the worst people to ever wear a Boston Celtics jersey… “Freedom” my ass.
Brian Castner7I live right by the Aurbach center. Guess who exercised his "freedom" to not quarantine after testing positive for covid
Hunter Felt 🏳️⚧️4I remember how much better the Celtics got after they rid themselves of Enes.
Jeff 🦇 Van 🦇 Dreason3Oh look another dildo on the court in a W game…
ariel3he realized he couldn’t guard a practice cone and promptly lined up the Fox News grift as a retirement plan. #11 was truly cursed for a while there… need Pritchard stay on the path
Deion Flanders2Remember when he was going to sue the NBA saying he was out of the league for his views, but then realized the attorney for the NBA just had to show the jury a video of him running?
Dr. Claw1P. Enes Freedom. The "P" is for "Patriot".
Here’s a news story from a real news outlet, the Associated Press, that explains what happened. Sexist MAGA assholes want to spread anti-trans hate and vandalize women’s sports at the same time. There’s no trans player in the WNBA, but the right wing is inventing an issue anyway.
Abe9Three ways the AP could have said this: “After he confronted Sky’s Cloud” = it was HIS fault “After a confrontation with Sky’s Cloud” = Neutral “After he was confronted by Sky’s Cloud” = it was HER fault. Seriously, is placing the blame on her the best or most accurate headline?
worldcitizen1994.bsky.social2(Honestly, what in God's name is wrong with these people? Someone like him has money, fame and a talent. Isn't that enough already? Geez!)
Ellen Enders2Republicans disrespect women's sports & are against Title 1X. So, of course they are trying to disrupt their games & belittle the league. Maybe male professional bball players & players from other sports need to speak up & defend their female counterparts & make this behavior "uncool".
shep-shepy.bsky.social1🆒🆒 devalue these women’s athletic careers so you can get what? Press? Not very protective of women’s sports. Never heard of this dude until “she” started shit with wnba. Sounds like a misogynistic maga move.
Natasha Cloud met with team and league security after the game and will not speak with the media.
The WNBA is wisely refusing to engage with Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White in their culture war. This comes after Kanter Freedom antagonized women players last night during a game and was thrown out. Nothing says protecting women like showing up and harassing them at work amirite?
titubasrevenge.bsky.social4They are trying to destroy the WNBA because people started watching. They don’t care about women. They don’t care about women’s sports. They want us all to go back to making fun of the WNBA so they can feel big and important. We all have to stop falling for their baiting us to fight.
schoonerlabs3Protecting = keeping them in their place.
Emma1How did this asshole get a courtside seat to begin with?
Midnight Bard1There’s still a half a million dollar bounty on Kanter’s head in his home country. We could get rid of a bigot and secure funding for trans sports in one move.
matt harvey1this guy is an asshole
feminazghul.bsky.social1These choads hate women. You can debate about whether they hate transgender women or cisgender women *more,* but they hate women, period.
Enes Kanter thinks he’s making a point by pretending to identify as a woman and he’s not. He can identify as a sun-melted purple popsicle if he wants to, but he still doesn’t get to go to basketball games and harass women just because. What a trash bag.
txlawyer2Good on you for using his dead name. He would surely want it that way.
Coach Sankhavaram ®2@karlykingsley.bsky.social His strategic objective is to attract attention and do that by being transgressive in public. The ideal solution is to not give him what he wants: a reaction. That requires discipline and an organized, logical response, and his strategy counts on the absence of that.
TwerkingClassBuffalo1It seems like they're helping trans people more now by their tactics? Unless I'm missing something.
gracenhope.bsky.social1It’s how you can tell he is an entitled male Those pronouns are He/ It
He was wearing an ant-trans shirt and one of the players confronted him during a time out. He stepped towards her onto the court and security intervened. apnews.com/article/sky-...
Hojt63So much for him pretending to be human rights activist.
J. D.4What a loser. You can tell a lot about a cause by its most vocal advocates.
trappercreek.bsky.social3Long time Blazers fan here: Never thought this clown would make the team’s old Jail Blazers-era players look so good.
andimalloutofbubblegum3Woman: Something his 🍆 has never been in.
Brian Morans1“I am supporting youth sports,” I say as I show off my “Participation Trophies Are For Dweebs” shirt while challenging a 10 year old to a dunk contest.
Chris Bernard1You can’t get a clearer example of manufactured outrage: “The WNBA has been the subject of recent debates on whether transgender women…should be allowed to participate in the league. There has never been such a player in the WNBA.”
Don Moynihan600The people defending women by *checks notes* protesting and confronting women at work
stuart135didn't have "Gülenist transphobe NBA player" on my bingo card
Alex61It’s shit like this from Caitlin Clark that will make sure I’m never a fan of hers. She isn’t telling Cunningham to shut the fuck up, she hasn’t spoken out about Republicans efforts to make her untouchable & then shit like this where she says Enes Kanter is only a Chicago Sky problem.
Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians)14He shouldn’t have been allowed in, but once in, he should’ve been heckled non-stop.
Rebecca7This shirt shows that he is a cis man hurtng women. He is NOT a woman as he first claimed top join the WNBA. Their transphobia and misogyny is so fucking obvious. Fuck him. Fuck his supporters. Support trans women
fulana de tal4This motherfucker’s t-shirt offends me on a fundamental and grammatical level. You don’t go from woman to female, you dumb fuck!
Meechy Dorko3im kind of glad they're escalating to this inevitable end so quickly
LarryLegend2imagine spending your limited time on earth doing this, incredible loser shit
