Boston Celtics games have been pulled off the air in China by Tencent following Enes Kanter’s recent comments on the Free Tibet movement. Tencent is one of the leading NBA broadcasters in China.
Tencent has marked all recent broadcasts of Celtics games as unavailable, and has indicated no games will be aired in the future.
Kanter recently took to social media with a series of tweets where he called for China to give freedom to the Tibetan people. Kanter addressed his message to China’s leader, Xi Jinping, by calling him a “brutal dictator”.
Dear Brutal Dictator XI JINPING and the Chinese Government
Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people!