LONDON — As the Knicks and Wizards made their way through a Super Bowl-like gauntlet of media from across Europe, many of the questions were about the player who wasn’t here for the Knicks — Enes Kanter.
Just as the Knicks were arriving at the practice gym stories surfaced that the Turkish government was seeking to have Kanter, who already had an arrest warrant issued last year in absentia, extradited. His teammates expressed regret that he couldn’t be here, but had little else to offer about the strange political situation that forced him to remain in New York rather than risk what he believes was a threat on his life to come to Europe.