China Pulls Celtics Games From Internet Over Enes Kanter’s Pro-Tibet Messages


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Enes Kanter presumably has cost China-based Boston Celtics fans the opportunity to watch their team in action. Chinese internet giant Tencent made recent Celtics games unavailable for replay and indicated it won’t live stream any of Boston’s upcoming games, according to The New York Times’ Raymond Zhong. Tencent blacked out Boston’s games hours after Kanter used social media to share a series of messages, in which he called China president Xi Jinping a “brutal dictator” and blasted the Chinese government’s repressive policies in Tibet. “My message to the Chinese government is ‘free Tibet. Tibet belongs to Tibetans,” Kanter said in...