Kanter Calls Out Nike

[Ed Monix]

Enes Kanter
@EnesKanter

To the owner of
@Nike, Phil Knight

How about I book plane tickets for us
and let's fly to China together.

We can try to visit these SLAVE labor
camps and you can see it with your
own eyes.

@KingJames
 
@Jumpman23
 
you guys are welcome to come too.

#EndUyghurForcedLabor

[liam]

Someone has courage.

[MarcusSmartFanClub]

I'm very impressed by Kanter. So many would prefer to remain quiet and continue to make $. I think this type of action is heroic.

[tazzmaniac]

I'm very impressed by Kanter. So many would prefer to remain quiet and continue to make $. I think this type of action is heroic.

I don't think Kanter would be making much money from China regardless of his stance. 

I see there is Kanter gear at the NBA.com store site.  I assume all their gear is made in China.  So I wonder if Kanter has requested that they stop making and selling gear with his name on it. 

[Kiorrik]

I'm very impressed by Kanter. So many would prefer to remain quiet and continue to make $. I think this type of action is heroic.

I don't think Kanter would be making much money from China regardless of his stance. 

I see there is Kanter gear at the NBA.com store site.  I assume all their gear is made in China.  So I wonder if Kanter has requested that they stop making and selling gear with his name on it.

How should he have approached this instead?

.edit: actually, I can't find any Enes Kanter gear. And the links google provides to Enes Kanter shop pages are all dead.

[tazzmaniac]

I'm very impressed by Kanter. So many would prefer to remain quiet and continue to make $. I think this type of action is heroic.

I don't think Kanter would be making much money from China regardless of his stance. 

I see there is Kanter gear at the NBA.com store site.  I assume all their gear is made in China.  So I wonder if Kanter has requested that they stop making and selling gear with his name on it.

How should he have approached this instead?

I don't have a problem with how he approached it.  I'm just saying he doesn't have much skin in the game.  Not like Lebron and other top stars who have a lot of money at stake. 

[liam]

I'm very impressed by Kanter. So many would prefer to remain quiet and continue to make $. I think this type of action is heroic.

I don't think Kanter would be making much money from China regardless of his stance. 

I see there is Kanter gear at the NBA.com store site.  I assume all their gear is made in China.  So I wonder if Kanter has requested that they stop making and selling gear with his name on it.

Are you pointing at the one person who is actually standing up and saying something because he's not perfect?

[Kiorrik]

I'm very impressed by Kanter. So many would prefer to remain quiet and continue to make $. I think this type of action is heroic.

I don't think Kanter would be making much money from China regardless of his stance. 

I see there is Kanter gear at the NBA.com store site.  I assume all their gear is made in China.  So I wonder if Kanter has requested that they stop making and selling gear with his name on it.

How should he have approached this instead?

I don't have a problem with how he approached it.  I'm just saying he doesn't have much skin in the game.  Not like Lebron and other top stars who have a lot of money at stake.

Ah okay, might be some miscommunication there.

You're saying there IS gear, and then implying he got all his gear pulled from it

Regardless, I don't think it's the $ he's putting on the line here.

[tazzmaniac]

I'm very impressed by Kanter. So many would prefer to remain quiet and continue to make $. I think this type of action is heroic.

I don't think Kanter would be making much money from China regardless of his stance. 

I see there is Kanter gear at the NBA.com store site.  I assume all their gear is made in China.  So I wonder if Kanter has requested that they stop making and selling gear with his name on it.

How should he have approached this instead?

I don't have a problem with how he approached it.  I'm just saying he doesn't have much skin in the game.  Not like Lebron and other top stars who have a lot of money at stake.

Ah okay, might be some miscommunication there.

You're saying there IS gear, and then implying he got all his gear pulled from it

Regardless, I don't think it's the $ he's putting on the line here.

The quote I responded to specifically referred to others keeping quiet to make their money.  Calling Kanter heroic for not doing so.  Kanter isn't costing himself much by speaking out against China.  Certainly not much money.  Now he certainly does have a lot at stake with his stance on Turkey. 

[Kiorrik]

I'm very impressed by Kanter. So many would prefer to remain quiet and continue to make $. I think this type of action is heroic.

I don't think Kanter would be making much money from China regardless of his stance. 

I see there is Kanter gear at the NBA.com store site.  I assume all their gear is made in China.  So I wonder if Kanter has requested that they stop making and selling gear with his name on it.

How should he have approached this instead?

I don't have a problem with how he approached it.  I'm just saying he doesn't have much skin in the game.  Not like Lebron and other top stars who have a lot of money at stake.

Ah okay, might be some miscommunication there.

You're saying there IS gear, and then implying he got all his gear pulled from it

Regardless, I don't think it's the $ he's putting on the line here.

The quote I responded to specifically referred to others keeping quiet to make their money.  Calling Kanter heroic for not doing so.  Kanter isn't costing himself much by speaking out against China.  Certainly not much money.  Now he certainly does have a lot at stake with his stance on Turkey.

I keep reading quotes wrong. Thought you said that first nested quote. My bad. I think I've not been on message boards for too long :') Either that, or I need glasses.

Regardless, hard to say how much money someone leaves on the table with their political stance.

"Fringe" players can do ridiculously well abroad, especially when they transfer their careers to different countries. Also, saying "no" to Nike, or to any company that could be a sponsor, is pretty ballsy as a fringe player.

I think whatever they leave on the table, hurts them more than big names doing so. $50 means more to me than $50.000 means to Shaq, if you know what I mean

In other news, Enes' words made me look up what the options were for ethically made basketball shoes.

... and made me realize that this sort of stuff isn't easy to find. Especially in local retail.