Enes Kanter Freedom Tells Congress: I Lost $50 Million in NBA for Condemning China

The hearing occurs as one of the NBA’s top basketball players, champion Giannis Antetokounmpo, and his family continue an ongoing trip to China that began last week, where the Milwaukee Bucks star has been repeatedly mobbed by fans and offered regal treatment by the Communist Party. The Chinese state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times celebrated Antetokounmpo’s travels as an opportunity to remind NBA players of the “significant commercial opportunities” available to them if they cooperate with the Communist Party.