Prior to the Lakers’ Friday matchup against the Celtics, veteran Boston center Enes Kanter called out LeBron James on Twitter for his and Nike’s continued business in China, and announced that he would be wearing shoes criticizing the Lakers star.
The sneakers — which depict, among other things, James with bags of money behind him, kneeling and being crowned by what appears to be a caricature of Chinese president Xi Jinping — were Kanter’s latest attempt this season at raising awareness of accused human rights abuses in China against the ethnic minority Uighur Muslims that have been declared a genocide by the U.