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Enes Kanter Freedom: 🚨 BREAKING! U.S. Congress demanding answers from the @WNBA . If the league has no clear definition of “woman,” on what basis was @EnesFreedom deemed ineligible for the 2027 WNBA Draft? The question is simple. The rules should be too. Rules Are Rules.
Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, who contends he should be considered eligible for the 2027 WNBA Draft as a woman, recently sued the Chicago Sky, the City of Chicago and others over an Aug. 23 incident in which he was expelled from attending a Sky-Indiana Fever game in Chicago’s Wintrust Arena as a spectator after he and Sky guard Natasha Cloud exchanged words. Kanter’s lawsuit isn’t about whether, by saying he identifies as a woman, he satisfies the eligibility rule contained in Article XIII of the WNBA’s CBA. The rule states that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.” The word “woman” isn’t defined or clarified, meaning it’s possible an athlete who was assigned male at birth but identifies as a woman meets the requirement.
Acyn: Kanter Freedom: If they don’t want to change the rules, I think it might be really good for them because I will be playing in 2027 and I will be the best draft pick the WNBA has ever seen. My goal is to break Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 point record. I will be dunking everything in the name of equality. I just hope that they select me with the Indiana fever. Me and Caitlin Clark will be the modern day Shaq and Kobe.
Enes Kanter Freedom: MAKE @WNBA FEMALE AGAIN Commissioner Freedom Has a Nice Ring to It. While the reported retirement of #WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is a win for women and an admission that the league’s rules must change, her retirement does not solve the systemic issues which must be addressed in order to protect women’s sports. If the WNBA is unable to define what a woman is, then I, Enes Kanter Freedom, would be more than happy to step in as commissioner and lead this league back to greatness and restore fairness for all women. I’ll bring common sense. I’ll bring fairness. And yes, I’ll bring a dictionary.
Enes Kanter FREEDOM: 🚨SEE YOU IN COURT!!! Just filed a federal complaint. I’m taking legal action over my ejection from the @chicagosky game while peacefully exercising my First Amendment rights. My T-shirt did what the whole @WNBA apparently couldn’t: define a woman. No threats. No violence. Just biology. And somehow, that required a security escort. You don’t have to agree with my speech but you don’t get to silence me for it. I will not be intimidated. I will not be silenced. I will continue to stand for women and defend free speech.
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Enes Kanter Freedom: WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert and the @WNBA task force, I am now speaking directly to you. I’m going to keep this short and sweet, so open your ears and listen carefully. I would like to offer you a peace summit, moderated by my friend @Caitlyn_Jenner . I’ve already spoken with her, and she’s in. I’m not a troublemaker. I’m more of a peacemaker. Listen, The whole world is laughing at you. You have turned the #WNBA into a laughingstock. It’s time to stop hiding behind closed-door meetings, excuses, and delays and finally give the public a clear answer. Let’s have the peace summit. No shouting. No hiding. No carefully scripted statements. Let’s sit across the table from each other, have an open and respectful conversation, and address the questions millions of people are asking. Let’s put everything on the table and let the public hear both sides. If you truly believe in your position, you should have no problem defending it publicly. So, Commissioner Engelbert and the WNBA task force, the invitation is officially on the table. Name the time. Name the place. Let’s talk. Are you in?
Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud did not address Enes Kanter Freedom by name and called him “irrelevant” during her first media availability since the pair got into a verbal altercation during a game on Aug. 23. “I won’t be talking about anything that happened with an irrelevant person,” Cloud said ahead of the Sky’s game against the New York Liberty Saturday afternoon. “What I will focus on is what actually affects women and children.”
For the next two minutes, Cloud detailed three issues impacting women that she believes deserve more attention than Freedom: domestic violence, sexual assault and food insecurity. “I will talk about real issues that face women, and it’s not our trans human beings,” Cloud said. “It’s not our drag queens. It’s not our gay community. There is a certain demographic of people that you can generally search; it’s a simple Google search of what is the greatest threat to women and children in 2026 in the United States of America, and it’s not going to be trans people.”
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, “Men.” “The men now that are like ‘Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y’all were the same ones saying we shouldn’t be paid,” Cloud continued. “Y’all were the same ones saying we shouldn’t have been invested in, saying we’re a joke, the same ones that don’t respect Black women. So, if you’re going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on.”
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Colin Salao: The Sky–Fever game Sunday drew 3.31M viewers, the most-watched regular-season game since WNBA opening weekend in 1997, NBC announced. Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell combined for 67 points in the Fever's win. Enes Kanter Freedom was also removed from Wintrust Arena midgame.
Alter said Freedom is not allowed back into Wintrust Arena “unless sometime in the future, he’s able to prove to us that he’s able to abide by our rules without being a potential threat.” A Sky spokesperson confirmed Freedom is banned indefinitely from the team’s home games. A league source with knowledge of the situation told Front Office Sports that the WNBA does not intend to impose a league-wide ban on Freedom.
Alter said multiple people seated close to Freedom told him the former NBA player started talking to Cloud during the game. “I’ve had both of these people, separately, confirm that the dialogue, the engagement, whatever you want or however you want to characterize it, between Cloud and Freedom Kanter, started with Kanter.”
Kareem Copeland: The Chicago Sky have decided to ban Enes Kanter Freedom from Wintrust Arena moving forward, owner Michael Alter said when speaking to local Chicago media. "He has demonstrated to us, unequivocally, that he has the potential to be a threat."