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Walden: Enes Kanter may be an NBA ‘heel in the eyes of fans,’ but he’s a little less one-dimensional in real life

As an avid fan of professional wrestling, Enes Kanter is exceedingly familiar with over-the-top, one-dimensional bad guys and good guys, or, as they’re technically known in the industry, heels and babyfaces.

They’re usually pretty easy to recognize because of that aforementioned one-dimensionality, the heels typically belonging to some villainous archetype — egocentrics, psychopaths, megalomaniacs, bullies. Sometimes, the storyline will attempt to throw viewers a “swerve” by having a babyface reveal himself to actually be a heel, usually executed via the betrayal of a fellow babyface.

But again, it’s not terribly complex, regardless of the motivation — it’s simply changing the defining, underlying characteristic from one-dimensional heroic altruism to one-dimensional dastardly selfishness.