Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times,
Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom filed a lawsuit on Sept. 3 after he was ejected during a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) game and banned from future games.
Kanter Freedom sued the Chicago Women's Basketball Operations, LLC, which operates the Chicago Sky. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority and the City of Chicago were also named in the complaint.
The lawsuit alleged that the three entities conspired and acted together to discriminate against Kanter Freedom based on his "verbal and demonstrable expression of viewpoint and gender identity" by wrongfully ejecting him from the Chicago Sky vs. Indiana Fever game on Aug. 23 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago.
Security escorted Kanter Freedom out of Wintrust Arena after an altercation occurred between the former NBA player and Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud.
After Cloud scored late in the third quarter, she appeared to approach Kanter Freedom, who was seated along the baseline. In Thursday's lawsuit, Kanter Freedom alleged that Cloud "without provocation, initiated a vulgar, profanity-laced verbal tirade" directed at him.
Thursday's lawsuit stated that Kanter Freedom believed Cloud was "motivated and triggered" by the message on his shirt and his "widely publicized viewpoint on protecting the integrity of women only sports."
At the time of the incident, Kanter Freedom was wearing a black shirt bearing the words, "WOMAN noun
