Enes Kanter Freedom is now blasting former NBA player Jeremy Lin for choosing to play in the Chinese Basketball Association and called on him to “stand with Taiwan.”
The Boston Celtics center has been outspoken on various social and political issues while taking aim at the likes of LeBron James and Michael Jordan.
Lin, 33, is a guard for the Beijing Ducks.
“Shame on you @JLin7,” Freedom wrote Sunday morning in a post to his verified Twitter account. “Haven’t you had enough of that Dirty Chinese Communist Party money feeding you to stay silent? How disgusting of you to turn your back against your country & your people. Stand with Taiwan! Stop bowing to money & the Dictatorship. Morals over Money brother.”
Lin, who had previously played for the Beijing Ducks during the 2019-20 season, attempted to make an NBA comeback in the NBA’s G League last year. He averaged 19.8 points per game and 6.4 assists with Santa Cruz in nine games.
Earlier this year, Lin announced that he was abandoning his hopes to return to the NBA after a call-up to the league never came.
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“For months, I saw others get contracts, chances, opportunities,” Lin wrote on Instagram May 18. “I told myself I just need ONE ten-day contract, one chance to get back on the floor and I would blow it out the water. After all that’s how my entire career started – off one chance to prove myself. For reasons I’ll never fully know, that chance never materialized. But I proved I’m better than ever and an NBA player.”
Back in June, Lin said he would be rejoining the Ducks in the Chinese Basketball Association for the 2021-22 season.
Lin became the first American-born player of Taiwanese or Chinese descent in NBA history when he broke into the league.
