Enes Kanter Freedom has filed a lawsuit against the WNBA’s Chicago Sky after it ejected and banned him from the Wintrust Arena following an altercation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud.
\n\nThe lawsuit, which Enes filed in U.S. District Court, said that he was “peacefully exercising my First Amendment rights” as he watched the game while wearing a shirt that read, “WOMAN noun, adult human female,” per Fox News.
\n\nFreedom’s lawsuit names Chicago Women’s Basketball Operations, LLC, which operates the Sky, the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA), which financed and built Wintrust Arena as a public project, and the City of Chicago as defendants, claiming they “combined and conspired, and acted jointly to execute their conspiracy, to discriminate against Plaintiff based on Plaintiff’s verbal and demonstrable expression of viewpoint and gender identity when they wrongfully ejected Plaintiff from a recent WNBA game.”
\n\nBeyond the ejection, the lawsuit further alleged that the subsequent ban “exacerbated Plaintiff’s injuries.”
\n\n“Plaintiff has been the target of a torrent of hateful attacks and discriminatory actions based on Plaintiff’s viewpoint and gender identity,” the lawsuit read.
\n\nThe incident occurred in August when Cloud was seen yelling toward Enes Kanter-Freedom, who was sitting courtside. When Freedom stepped…
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