China Cuts Celtics-Knicks Game Stream Amid Enes Kanter's Comments FOX Sports AM 1340


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Photo: Getty Images Chinese video-streaming giant Tencent cut the live broadcast of the Boston Celtics' game against the New York Knicks amid Celtics center Enes Kanter 's recent comments supporting Tibetan independence. Kanter shared a video of himself wearing a t-shirt depicting the Dalai Lama -- the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader viewed by many within Beijing as a dangerous separatist -- on his verified Twitter account Wednesday (October 20) in which he referred to General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jingping as "a brutal dictator." "My message for the Chinese government is, 'free Tibet,'" Kanter said in the...