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NBA Runs Afoul Of China Again, As “Free Tibet” Social Posts By Boston Celtics’ Enes Kanter Result In Streaming Blackout
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deadline.comEnes Kanter and the NBA’s Boston Celtics opened ESPN’s regular-season schedule with a dramatic, double-overtime game won by the New York Knicks.
But social media posts by Kanter before the game wound up being much more consequential.The player’s advocacy for Tibet and against the Chinese government and “brutal dictator” Xi Jinping resulted in the Celtics being wiped off the internet in China.
The team’s games were yanked from Tencent-run streaming platforms in the latest in an ongoing tit-for-tat between the country and the league.“Under the Chinese government’s brutal rule, Tibetan people’s basic rights and freedoms are nonexistent,” Kanter said in the video posted to Twitter and Instagram. (See it below.) After the video, in which he wore
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