{"id":866675,"date":"2026-08-24T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866675\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:42:14","slug":"enes-kanter-freedom-ejected-from-wnba-game-after-verbal-altercation-with-natasha-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866675\/","title":{"rendered":"Enes Kanter Freedom ejected from WNBA game after verbal altercation with Natasha Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from Sunday’s Women’s NBA match between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever after becoming involved in a verbal altercation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud.<\/p>\n

Sitting at courtside, Kanter Freedom stood up with his arms outstretched and took steps towards the court after Cloud began pointing and shouting at him during a timeout.<\/p>\n

Kanter Freedom was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “WOMAN noun. Adult human female.”.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, he declared he would enter next season’s WNBA Draft, citing the current eligibility guidelines, or lack of, for transgender women players.<\/p>\n

Security and other Sky players intervened, before former Utah Jazz and Boston Celtics centre Kanter Freedom was escorted from the court.<\/p>\n

He posted on X, external<\/a>: “I just got kicked out of a WNBA game for supporting WOMEN! Let that sink in, AMERICA!”<\/p>\n

Writing on Threads, external<\/a> after the game, Cloud said: “To every trans kid\/person, you are apart of MY community & tribe. You belong. You’re loved. You’re seen. You’re perfect as you are & you will always be protected by me.”<\/p>\n

Kanter Freedom reportedly spoke with police officers before exiting Chicago’s Wintrust Arena.<\/p>\n

The Fever won the match 113-90.<\/p>\n

“There’s so many good things about this league and so many good things about the play of these players, that if you come to a game, you should probably come to enjoy the basketball,” said Sky head coach Tyler Marsh.<\/p>\n

“That seems pretty simple to me. I think these players deserve that and have earned that. Being a former basketball player, you should probably understand and feel that, too.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from Sunday’s Women’s NBA match between the Chicago Sky and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-866675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}