Utah Jazz alum Enes Freedom has embroiled himself in the news lately. With his NBA career very much behind him, he has decided to embark on the next chapter of his basketball career: the WNBA. Well, at least that's what he wants to believe.
Without getting political, Freedom clearly wants everyone to know his intentions of joining the WNBA and will do it in the most annoying way possible: disrupting WNBA games.
Love him or hate him, Freedom is no stranger to controversy, and the Jazz were among the first to know it. Any fan who was there remembers Freedom's turbulent exit from the team back in 2015 (when he was Enes Kanter), but what made it worse was that it did not stop there.
In his defense, Freedom wanted out of Utah for a very understandable reason: Rudy Gobert's sudden and unexpected ascension had gotten in the way of Freedom's role on the team, so he wanted a new one. However, he made that very public to reporters when he should have told the team what he wanted in private.
Even after Utah gave him what he wanted (and basically told him not to let the door hit him on the way out), Freedom decided to burn the bridge entirely not too long afterward.
Freedom then fired shots at the Jazz & fanbase
Freedom has never minced words, and he certainly didn't after Utah traded him. Not too long after trading him to Oklahoma City, he called his time in Utah a "three-and-a-half-year frustration." He even went as far as saying that playing for the Thunder gave him the chance to enjoy basketball again.
Yeah, there is not and never has been much subtlety to Freedom's words or actions.
A few years after the Jazz traded Freedom, he gave his two cents on who he was pulling for during their first-round series against the Thunder, the team they traded him to. In short, Freedom fired shots at the Jazz's fanbase, calling the crowd "terrible."
In all fairness, after his initial remarks, Freedom recanted his words, showing that he's had regrets in the past. However, it doesn't seem like his behavior has changed much, even after all these years.
This is just what Freedom does. He trolls for attention. He's not afraid of backlash, and he's not afraid to be loud about it. No one knows how long this situations will take to resolve or how exactly it will resolve, but in case anyone's wondering, Freedom's time with the Jazz beforehand show that he's most certainly capable of this.
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