The Chinese government newspaper Global Times broke its unusual silence on the ongoing anti-communist campaign of Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter Freedom on Thursday, dismissing his opposition to genocide in China as a sign that he may be cooperating with the CIA.
Basketball legend Yao Ming made a media appearance on Monday to promote the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in which he invited anti-communist player Enes Kanter Freedom to visit China and defended the country’s treatment of tennis champion Peng Shuai.
A Connecticut high school suspended its girl’s basketball coach for one game after he presided over a massive 92-4 win on Monday.
The Chinese propaganda site Global Times regaled former NBA star Stephon Marbury with an extensive profile on Wednesday after Marbury, who has lived in China for 11 years, excitedly praised China’s “hospitality,” applauded top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, and predicted the 2022 Beijing Olympics would be “extraordinary.
Fans hoping to see LeBron James face off against the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday were left wanting when the NBA announced the star Laker had entered “health and safety protocols.”
A boy with Down syndrome made a big crowd in Oklahoma erupt in cheers and applause when he took one incredible basketball shot.
A California family has filed a police report after their daughter was brutally punched in the throat during a teen’s basketball game.
Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter continued his campaign against the Communist Party of China on Wednesday, debuting sneakers emblazoned with the flag of Taiwan and asserting, “Taiwan will never surrender to the EVIL Chinese Communist Party.”
President Joe Biden made a point of sharing that he had played basketball with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping – emphasizing the global popularity of the sport – during remarks on Monday celebrating NBA champions the Milwaukee Bucks.
Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter continued his campaign against the Chinese Communist Party on Sunday with the debut of sneakers featuring images inspired by the Tiananmen Square massacre and what appears to be an illustration of himself holding the severed head of Winnie the Pooh.
Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter published a video Friday condemning “heartless dictator” Xi Jinping for the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities in western China.
Boston Celtics star Enes Kanter published a video Wednesday evening condemning China and dictator Xi Jinping by name for the decades-long brutal repression of Tibet, potentially jeopardizing the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) lucrative business ties with the regime.
The Stanford University student rec center has mandated that everyone must wear masks, even fully vaccinated basketball players.
National Basketball Association (NBA) player Enes Kanter declared Thursday that he will continue criticizing the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his family homeland of Turkey, despite the Turkish government issuing “nine arrest warrants” against him for “standing up for human rights, freedom, and political prisoners who are getting tortured.”
A report by the law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP recommends that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) combine the men’s and women’s Final Four tournaments to stop “undervaluing and underfunding the women’s game.”
SAITAMA, Japan (AP) – Italy is headed back to the Olympic quarter-finals. Nigeria is going home, its Olympic experience not what it wanted on multiple levels.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) went maskless while playing basketball indoors Tuesday, shortly before lecturing residents about the need to wear one indoors.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — This is not how USA Basketball expected to open its Olympic summer.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday touted the participation of the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) at China’s first International Consumer Products Expo, scheduled for May 7-10 in the city of Haikou. The Global Times suggested the event will give the NBA an opportunity to repair its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey expressed support for the Hong Kong democracy movement in 2019.
Texas is one of more than two dozen states with proposed legislation to protect female athletes from transgender competition as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) threatens to remove sporting events from states if these bills become law. As Breitbart
A custodian at an Ohio school is getting a lot of attention for effortlessly making a half-court shot when no one was watching.
An Indiana high school basketball coach was fired after being ejected from a game for throwing a chair in the direction of a referee.
Pope Francis met with a delegation of NBA players in the Vatican Monday to discuss economic equality and other “social justice issues.”
Two Georgia sheriff’s deputies who saw a 13-year-old boy playing basketball decided to join in the fun by playing the game with him.
Amar’e Stoudemire has converted to Judaism, the former NBA star announced in an Instagram post on Wednesday from his adopted home in Jerusalem.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said it was a disgrace the NBA continued to cater to China despite their known human rights abuses.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview last week that the National Basketball Association (NBA) is “in bed with” the Chinese Communist Party.
The 2020 Special Olympics Summer Games were canceled due to COVID-19. Athletes are understandably disappointed, but many are keeping a positive outlook with their sights set on 2021.
A school district in Oklahoma has issued an apology after their basketball announcer referred to the names of a visiting girls team as, “pretty disgusting.”
A Newark, New Jersey, junior varsity high school basketball coach was allegedly assaulted by his own players on Tuesday night, police said.
A little girl got the sweetest surprise recently when she went to see the Harlem Globetrotters play in Memphis, Tennessee.
A mural honoring the late Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, appeared Monday in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Basketball legend Kobe Bryant described the United States of America as the greatest country in the world in 2008, calling it the “ultimate” honor to represent in the Olympics.
“There are millions of people, not just in Los Angeles, but around the world right now mourning because they were inspired by what he did on the field, what he meant off the field,” Buttigieg said.
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — A winless North Carolina high school basketball coach assaulted a heckler who raised his hand to admit he had made the comment, a sheriff’s office said.
It is not about the money, but about what is in the heart, NBA legend Michael Jordan said Thursday at the opening of a medical clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina.
NBA player LeBron James’ condemnation of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey on Monday for supporting human rights in China has triggered a widespread backlash in Hong Kong, whose pro-freedom movement Morey endorsed. James complained that Morey “wasn’t educated” when
During an interview with reporters, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr referenced “America’s record of human rights abuses” and framed those alleged abuses around AR-15s.
A couple attending a Philadelphia 76ers basketball game against the Chinese team Guangzhou Loong Lions were ejected from the stadium on Tuesday night after holding signs and shouting support for Hong Kong.
The firestorm that followed the National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China reflects the souring of China’s relationship with the U.S. However, it may not fundamentally change the way U.S. businesses respond to pressure from the Chinese regime.
