Enes Kanter Freedom continues to make more enemies than friends in the WNBA.
After the Los Angeles Sparks finished practice on Wednesday afternoon, star forward Cameron Brink called him out after his recent controversy surrounding the WNBA.
“For me personally, when it comes to the trans issues I believe you’re talking about, I think it’s a non-issue and it’s people trying to just come for the trans community, and I just don’t stand for that,” Brink said to WNBA reporter Jarrod Castillo of The Mirror US. “I don’t know what the f— his name is, Enes Kanter, like he’s a stupid piece of s—t.”
Brink went on to say that she thinks Freedom is trying to stay relevant.
“I think people are tuned in [to the WNBA] for the right reasons,” Brink said. “It’s great that we can all talk about things that are important and hard, and you can have your opinions on that, but I think taking something that’s like a non-issue right now and trying to use it for clickbait, for views, for likes, and then targeting a vulnerable community is just really low.”
Throughout her three-year career in the WNBA, Brink has been vocal about her support for her teammates’ gender identities, as she’s told UPROXX she’s had teammates with they/them pronouns.
She’s also been vocal about advantages white players have over players who are people of color.
“I want to bring more acceptance to that and not just have people support us because of the way we look,” Brink said to UPROXX. “I know I can feed into that because I like to dress femininely, but that’s just me. I want everyone to be accepted — not just paid attention to because of how they look.”
On Sunday, Freedom was escorted out of an Indiana Fever vs Chicago Sky game after he got into a verbal exchange with Natash Cloud.
After watching Sophie Cunningham shoot a three-point shot, Freedom said that Cloud came up to him and told him, “She’s not going to sleep with you.”
Freedom said that he wasn’t there “to sleep with her,” and that he was in attendance to “protect women and support her.”
On August 7, Freedom announced that he was planning to enter the WNBA Draft, and then officially declared on August 10, as a transgender player, despite the league having zero players identifying as transgender.
