I have already expressed my sorrow at Turkish people not being able to watch highlights of their favorite Turkish NBAers because of governmental internet censorship. I’ll express it again: it sucks. Erdogan’s Turkish government, from what I can tell as a barely-informed American pig imperialist, is pretty much totally screwed up right now in terms of “liberties” and “wait a minute they almost let this nutball country into the European Union?”.
Though the Turks couldn’t watch my Ersan Ilyasova highlights, they EVEN MORE can’t watch these Enes Kanter highlights, because of Kanter’s outspoken opposition to the current regime and the extra super-duper censorship that entails. Apparently he even changed his last name because his parents disowned him? Enes Gülen just doesn’t sound as good coming from the P.A. announcer as he dominates helpless backup centers. I’m not sure if he really went through with it or not, but everyone is still calling him Kanter, so I’ll stick with that for now.
Just like how I’m sticking with “Metta World Peace” even though that dude’s name supposedly changed to “Chinese Panda Express Friend” or something.